Coming upon a satiric poem—written by one Ebenezer Cook and published in London in 1706—in the course of his researches into the local history of his native Maryland, John Barth’s imagination took flight, and, turning poet into protagonist, he conceived his own comic extravaganza—an enormous, rambun...show more
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