Eolopoesis: American Rejected Addresses; Now First Published From The Original Manuscripts - Softcover
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Eolopoesis: American Rejected Addresses; Now First Published From The Original Manuscripts is a book written by Jacob Bigelow. It is a collection of satirical poems that were originally written and submitted to the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society in the early 19th century. However, these poems were rejected by the society for being too humorous and irreverent. The book contains 25 of these rejected poems, which were rediscovered by Bigelow in the Harvard archives. The poems are written in the style of British poet James Smith and his brother Horace, who had written a popular collection of satirical poems called Rejected Addresses. Eolopoesis includes poems on a variety of topics, including politics, religion, education, and society. The poems are witty and clever, poking fun at the foibles and follies of American life in the early 19th century. Overall, Eolopoesis provides a fascinating glimpse into the humor and satire of early American literature, and is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of American literature or the development of American humor.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Rumor, with her hundred tongues, announced that a mysterious prize, in the form of a castle, wrought from a solid nugget of Californian gold, was to be adjudged to the author of the best poem submitted to the ordeal of your critical eyes. Untrammelled by the confines usually allotted on the occasion of an opening or closing address, the happy candidates were left free as air to select subjects in which they felt themselves most competent to shine. As the announcement of a vacant office brings down an avalanche of hungry aspirants, so did the promulgation of this news dart hope, activity, and sunshine into multitudes of desolate garrets. Un numbered pens at once went down into inkhorns, and the Muses got a holocaust of sleepless nights and days. Eyes rolled in fine frenzies, reams of paper were blotted, interlined, and transcribed, and the number of stanzas which the world had to boast underwent a marked statistical augmentation. Judge, then, of our consternation, when we first learned that our sunshine was moonshine, and that you had apparently been deceiving us all for your own selfish and unjustifiable purposes.
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