John Banister Tabb — a remark

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“I am not surprised that you, who are sojourning in a land where the cat was once worshiped, should desire to hear the mews (Muse) of the Tabb-y.”

Playful punning reply when asked for a copy of his poems · Letter to a correspondent in Egypt

About John Banister Tabb

John Banister Tabb

22 March 1845–19 November 1909

In the world of American poetry, few figures embody such remarkable contrasts as John Banister Tabb (March 22, 1845 – November 19, 1909), a man whose life journey carried him from the battlefields of the Confederacy to the quiet halls of a Catholic seminary, from the drawing rooms of Virginia aristocracy to a prison…

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