The prefatory note to this work says it began as installments sent to the author's friend Charles Frederick Briggs who encouraged him to publish.
Near the end of this work, a character enters and delivers a speech referring to "the last spurning print of a sky-cleaving god," claiming that, in the happier days of the muse, the poet brought heaven to the people and they too felt they were poets in hearing his lay. The prefatory note to this work says it began as installments sent to the author's friend Charles Frederick Briggs who encouraged him to publish. Its extended title presents it as a "vocal and musical medley" from the "tub of Diogenes." In one section, the author asks Zeus how to flee from Miranda, a thinly-veiled representation of Margaret Fuller, who simply takes old notions and makes them her own. FTP, name this "Glance at a Few of our Literary Progenies" which also makes fun of James Fennimore Cooper and Edgar Allen Poe among others, and was written by James Russell Lowell.
Near the end of this work, a character enters and delivers a speech referring to "the last spurning print of a sky-cleaving god," claiming that, in the happier days of the muse, the poet brought heaven to the people and they too felt they were poets in hearing his lay.
“A {Fable for Critics}”