by Chesterton · Cluster: Satire of Society · Epigram · Satire
Abstract
A short comic nursery-rhyme parody (on ‘Little Bo-Peep’) satirising Galsworthy and the fashionable modern fiction of his day; a light verse squib of literary satire.
Testo / Text
Connections
Historical References: John Galsworthy
Themes & Concepts: Artist and Society, Satire of Society, Critique of Progress, Literary Criticism (2) Forms & Genres: Parody, Satire, Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
THE NEW FICTION
by G.K.Chesterton
(“Leave them alone”, we seem to hear Mr. Galsworthy say of his Young People.
---From a Review by Mr. Bettany)
Little Blue-Fits has lost his wits,
And doesn't know where to find them;
Leave them alone and they'll come home,
And leave their tales behind them.
The remarkable tales, with remarkable sales,
And Bonnets and Bees in disorder;
For the Bonnets we view are exceedingly Blue,
And decidedly over the Border.