This poem offers an inadvertent portrait of Ike Jose in its description of "a reading machine, always wound up and going /[who
This poem offers an inadvertent portrait of Ike Jose in its description of "a reading machine, always wound up and going /[who] mastered whatever was not worth the knowing." A woman with "I-turn-the-crank-of-the-Universe air" interrupts themain character midway through this work right before a notable passage asserting that a writer's "rich words" are "like goldnails in temples to hang trophies on." At the beginning of this poem, Phoebus Apollo abandons reading under a laurel treeand starts to commenting on a procession of Âfigures led by Tityrus Griswold. At the end of this work the speaker concludes,"He who would write and can't write can surely review" before flfleeing from the over-talkative "Miranda" who is based on theauthor of Woman in the Nineteenth Century. This poem subtitled "A Glance at a Few of Our Literary Progenies" famouslydescribes a man "like Barnaby Rudge / Three Âftfifths of him genius and two Âftfifths sheer fudge" in a discussion of Poe and earliersections discuss "Emerson" and "Hawthorne." For 10 points, name this satirical poem by James Russell Lowell.
This poem offers an inadvertent portrait of Ike Jose in its description of "a reading machine, always wound up and going /[who
 "A Fable For Critics"