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Article: "Prayers in the market place": women and low culture in Catharine Sedgwick's, "Cacoethes Scribendi".(Critical Essay)
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- ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Our nation's learning rests on Caesar's whim Since he alone still favors our sad Muses, And writers daily, seeing life grow grim, Take jobs in baths or ploy some other ruses ...
Despite this all, our poets carry on, Plowing their sterile furrows with dull plows, For they can't stop. The itch for writing grows And fame secures them like a hangman's noose, And cuts off any sense inside the brain. It's truest, too, of course, of the real genius Who shuns a hackneyed or a vulgar strain. Juvenal, "Satire VII"
In 1830, Catharine Sedgwick published a new short story in the Atlantic Souvenir, an annual collection of fiction and verse whose editors were eager to ...