Wednesday, July 05, 2017
Poetry
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), The American Senator, Part II, Chapter VI (Mrs. Masters complaining about her step-daughter Mary's refusal to marry Larry Twentyman; "that old woman" is Lady Ushant):
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"She don't like him because he works for his bread,—that's what it is; and because she's been taught by that old woman to read poetry. I never knew that stuff do any good to anybody. I hate them fandangled lines that are all cut up short to make pretence. If she wants to read why can't she take the cookery book and learn something useful?"
