Here I Sit with my Paper, my Pen and my Ink
A speaker loses patience with disordered thoughts and tosses paper and pens into the fire, then urges another attempt with help from grammar and word references. The verse mocks several kinds of writers, favors heartfelt letters to friends over applause, and ends with an intention to post the letter.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Satirical Poetry · 1,067 words
First lines
A Person complained that whenever he began to write, he never could arrange his ideas in grammatical order. Which occasion suggested the idea of the following lines:
Genres
- Satirical Poetry — The verse exaggerates a writer's frustration and invents an absurd numerical catalogue of spiteful critics, bombastic poets and writers who patch up old works.
Tags
satire · writing process · grammar · literary criticism · humor · 19th century poetry
What this Textopian page supports
Here I Sit with my Paper, my Pen and my Ink is listed on Textopian as a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, dated Date unknown.
This source record anchors work identity, reading entry points, and catalog context for checking claims about the work.
- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Satirical Poetry
- Length: 1,067 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Difficult (10th-12th Grade)
Good citation fit
- Work identity for Here I Sit with my Paper, my Pen and my Ink by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Canonical title URL and first readable passage URL
- Genre and topic classification from the Textopian catalog
- Readability and classroom-planning context
- Passage-specific claims should cite the exact /read/ URL for the relevant chapter or paragraph