The Poet's Reply to the Threat of a Censorious C
The prefatory note identifies a Rev. Mr. Hamilton as the possible author of a petulant answer to Burns's lines. Beneath that answer in a manuscript, Burns writes a couplet invoking Aesop's lion and cursing an ass's heel.
By Robert Burns · Genre: Epigram, Satirical Poetry · 62 words
First lines
My imprudent lines were answered, very petulantly, by somebody, I believe, a Rev. Mr. Hamilton. In a MS., where I met the answer, I wrote below: -
With Esop's lion, Burns says: Sore I feel / Each other's scorn, but damn that ass' heel!
Genres
- Epigram — The two-line reply ends with a pointed curse against an ass's heel.
- Satirical Poetry — The rhyming couplet answers a critic through a mocking animal comparison.
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epigram · satire · literary criticism · scorn
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Robert Burns
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Epigram, Satirical Poetry
- Length: 62 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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