A Literary Controversy at Sea single work   prose  
Is part of Papers from My Portfolio Matthew Measure , Whimsa , 1838 series - author single work poetry prose short story (number 4 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1838... 1838 A Literary Controversy at Sea
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'Poem "Gale at Sea" by Whimsa is derided for a supposed pleonasm, actually misunderstood as E. L. points out in a "Pindaric Epistle, To the Editor of 'the Traveller', in refutation of certain allegations".' (Webby)

The poems are separately indexed.

Notes

  • Author's note: Shewing that 'Mister Beverley Suttor' is not the only person who gets laughed at for his Poems.
  • Epigraph: Without money we were forc'd to do,/ We wrote to while away the hours;/ And as for fame, or honor - pooh!-/ Fame lodges not with such poor pow'rs. 'Measure's imitation.'

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Measure's Imitation i "Without money we are forc'd to do;", Matthew Measure , 1838 single work poetry
— Appears in: Commercial Journal and Advertiser , 26 December vol. 4 no. 331 1838; (p. 2)

This short poem, presented as an epigraph to 'A Literary Controversy at Sea', is a parody of Beverley Suttor's verse.
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