Arts & Sciences
To Scotch Critics
From Heroic Idyls (1863)
Arts & Sciences
Why should ye sourly criticise
A poet more profuse than wise.
The gentle Muse would not send from her
Her Ovid, tho' preferring Homer.
Mind, wise was gentle Ovid too.
And equal'd in his art by few.
Sirs, malice is a worse disease
Than all your itch and all your fleas.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “To Scotch Critics.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/270/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “To Scotch Critics.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/270/.
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