Social Commentaries
A Dialogue Between an Author and His Friend
From Complete Poetical Works, ed. E. H. Coleridge (1912)
Social Commentaries
Author. Come; your opinion of my manuscript!
Friend. Dear Joe! I would almost as soon be whipt.
Author. But I will have it!
Friend. If it must be had--(hesitating)
You write so ill, I scarce could read the hand--
Author. A mere evasion!
Friend. And you spell so bad,
That what I read I could not understand.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “A Dialogue Between an Author and His Friend.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/339/.
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