The narrator often converses with Apollo or Phoebus before discussing his fellow "Brahmins." Emerson is depicted as a self-absorbed thinker, but his originality is expressed as superior to Carlyle while Poe is "three-fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge." Consisting of thumbnail sketches of Hawthorne, Fuller, and
The narrator often converses with Apollo or Phoebus before discussing his fellow "Brahmins." Emerson is depicted as a self-absorbed thinker, but his originality is expressed as superior to Carlyle while Poe is "three-fifths of him genius and two fifths sheer fudge." Consisting of thumbnail sketches of Hawthorne, Fuller, and other literary figures for 10 points--, identify this satire in rhyming couplets by James Russell Lowell.
The narrator often converses with Apollo or Phoebus before discussing his fellow "Brahmins.
{“A Fable for Critics”}