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The Peripatetic Philosopher single work   prose  
  • Author:agent Q.
Issue Details: First known date: 1868... 1868 The Peripatetic Philosopher
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Among Q.'s topics are his reflections on Penny Readings (now 'shilling' readings) which have 'degenerated into simple "spouting places"' where 'every young man who can read a stanza of poetry without losing the sense of the argument, or misplacing his "h's," considers himself qualified for a penny reader, and doses his unfortunate hearers with selected scraps from English poets'.

Notes

  • Epigraph: 'Quidquid agunt homines, votum timor ira voluptas,/ Gaudia discursus, nostri farrago libelli [est].' – Juvenal

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    y separately published work icon The Australasian vol. 4 no. 111 (New Series) 16 May 1868 7937177 1868 newspaper issue 1868 pg. 625
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