A character in this collection loses a leg, an arm, four fingers, and an eye, and decides to use those injuries to become a politician nicknamed "Timbertoes."
A character in this collection loses a leg, an arm, four fingers, and an eye, and decides to use those injuries to become a politician nicknamed "Timbertoes." Another of its characters repeatedly heckles a speech given by Increase D. O'Phace. This collection mocks a hypocritical "Pious Editor's Creed," and was later expanded to include its author's poem "The Courtin'" in its second series. Its characters include the pastor of the First Church of Jaalam, as well as a soldier who complains that "ninepence a day" is "kind of low for murder" while serving under Caleb Cushing. This collection is framed as a series of poems sent to Homer Wilbur, and uses letters from Birdofredum Sawin to attack the Mexican War. For 10 points, identify this collection of New England dialect poems named for the farmer Hosea, written by James Russell Lowell.
A character in this collection loses a leg, an arm, four fingers, and an eye, and decides to use those injuries to become a politician nicknamed "Timbertoes."
The Biglow Papers