What chance that I, to fame so little known,
Nor conversant with men or manners much,
Should speak to purpose, or with better hope
Crack the satiric thong?”
(From The Garden).
[27] Preface to The Universal Passion.
The last part of the passage anticipates our discussion of satire as exposure.
[28] Essays on Great Writers: Some Aspects of Thackeray.
[29] Introduction to Croiset’s Aristophanes and the Political Parties at Athens.
[30] Skelton: Colyn Clout.