Apollo presides while a critic surveys the American writers of 1848 in galloping, punning verse: Emerson, Bryant, Whittier, Hawthorne, Cooper, Holmes, Margaret Fuller and Poe, famously three-fifths genius and two-fifths sheer fudge, with Lowell mocking even himself. Dashed off for his own amusement, it was first published anonymously.
A witty, endlessly quotable snapshot of the American literary scene before the Civil War. Download the free EPUB.