" Its final stanza discusses the repetition of "beyond and above" and ends describing shepherds tracing "the last spurning print of a sky-cleaving god.
This poem prescribes, for the "mortals that delve in this trade-ridden planet," a figure who will satisfy your "Egyptian devotion to ices." One character likes to "rattle away till he's as old as Methusaleh/At the head of a march to the last new Jerusalem." Its final stanza discusses the repetition of "beyond and above" and ends describing shepherds tracing "the last spurning print of a sky-cleaving god." This poem discusses the "Spirit of Ancient Poetry," and contains the simile of "gold nails in temples to hang trophies on." Characters described in this poem include one who has "the fun of Dick Steele" and another who, much like "Barnaby Rudge" is three-fifths genius and two-fifths fudge. Using wordplay to discuss "Whinier," "Bryant," "Poe," and "Cooper," for 10 points, name this satirical work by James Russell Lowell.
This poem prescribes, for the "mortals that delve in this trade-ridden planet," a figure who will satisfy your "Egyptian devotion to ices.
“A {Fable} for the {Critics}”