Bowles and Campbell
Bowles and Campbell - meaning Summary
Mocking Public Disputes
A short satirical exchange in jaunty, parlor-song style that ridicules contemporary figures and public taste. Speakers trade teasing insults—calling one rambling and another maudlin—and threaten to publish critical “remarks.” The poem stages a petty quarrel aimed at both a named poet and a moralizing priest, using public address to expose hypocrisy and vanity while turning personal annoyance into comic performance.
Read Complete AnalysesTo the tune of ‘Why, how now, saucy jade?’ Why, how now, saucy Tom? If you thus must ramble, I will publish some Remarks on Mister Campbell. ANSWER Why, how now, Billy Bowles? Sure the priest is maudlin! (To the public) How can you, d–n your souls! Listen to his twaddling?
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