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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE DEPLORABLE LACK OF SCHOLARSHIP IN AMERICAN HUMORISTS, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poet's Biography First Line: Behold in me a heavy intellectual Last Line: I wonder when I'll tumble to myself. Subject(s): Humorists; Scholarship & Scholars | |||
Behold in me a Heavy Intellectual. I strive to give those sorry human dregs, My elders, now so feebly ineffectual, Instruction in the art of sucking eggs. Our Writing Class is just a sordid dollarship With scarce a tint of Truth's eternal flame, Devoid of Background, destitute of Scholarship -- Or any how it was before I came. I need not read the work of those I criticize, For every schoolboy knows they'll have to start To Russianize or Germanize or Briticize Before we get a gleam of Native Art. While some, I hear, have gained at minor colleges B.A.'s, M.A.'s, or even Ph.D.'s, Such homemade tags are ludicrous apologies For Oxford, Bonn or Heidelberg degrees. I quite approve of Humor when it's serious; I'll even tolerate a learned pun; But Mirth, as such, is highly deleterious, And what I most abominate, is Fun. I wonder how the public stands their caperings. I wonder why their books adorn the shelf. I wonder who will print my solemn vaporings. I wonder when I'll tumble to myself. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GILES JOHNSON, PH.D by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS ADDRESS TO THE SCHOLARS OF NEW ENGLAND by JOHN CROWE RANSOM VERSES, READ AT MY INITIATION INTO THE O.K. by GEORGE SANTAYANA VERSES, SUNG AT MY INITIATION INTO THE PUDDING by GEORGE SANTAYANA FOR BILL NESTRICK by FRANK BIDART THE SCHOLAR GIPSY by MATTHEW ARNOLD A GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL by ROBERT BROWNING THE SCHOLARS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |
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