Famous Quotes | Description would but tire my...
Description would but tire my Muse:
In short, they both were turned to yews.
- Jonathan Swift
Attribution: Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Anglo-Irish poet, satirist, clergyman. Baucis and Philemon; Imitated from the Eighth Book of Ovid (l. 163–164). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I–II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).
Categories: Clergyman, Description, Muses, Satirist, Transformation
