by Coleridge · Cluster: Satire of Society · Epigram · Satire
Abstract
A self-deprecating album epigram comparing Parry’s polar quest to the poet’s quest for rhymes, joking that the public little knows and the publisher knows too much of his works; satire of authorship.
Connections
Motifs: Letters and Writing Themes & Concepts: Satire of Society, Artist and Society, Identity Forms & Genres: Epigram
Testo integrale / Full text
Parry seeks the Polar ridge,
Rhymes seeks S. T. Coleridge,
Author of Works, whereof — tho’ not in Dutch —
The public little knows — the publisher too much.
First published in 1834.
TO A LADY WHO REQUESTED ME TO WRITE A