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Today's dose of orientalized Victorian paternalism is brought to you by the University of Virginia Electronic Text Initiative:
Ode to the Mikado of Japan (1873) by R.H. Horne.
The name links to ye potted bio, of which the best best line is, "Disillusioned, he sailed in June 1869 for England where he became a literary doyen, producing many new works all artistically worthless." You will, of course, be happy to include today's dose in that final judgement, and probably add "syntactically incompetent" to it. There's some true beauties of bad versification in this one.
---L.
Ode to the Mikado of Japan (1873) by R.H. Horne.
The name links to ye potted bio, of which the best best line is, "Disillusioned, he sailed in June 1869 for England where he became a literary doyen, producing many new works all artistically worthless." You will, of course, be happy to include today's dose in that final judgement, and probably add "syntactically incompetent" to it. There's some true beauties of bad versification in this one.
---L.