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 
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”}