Poe referred to Longfellow readers as "negrophilic old ladies of the north."
What are some other good putdowns by famous authors?
>>9610686
Voltaire called Shakespeare "that drunken fool."
>>9610692
damn how's he ever gonna recover from that one
>>9610737
Being dead helps. Bukowski was a huge dick head. Read some of his reviews or critiques
Lovecraft once called someone a nigger
>>9610686
Longfellow's Kavanaugh is a great short novel. FWIW.
>>9610692
He also just wrote Candide to make fun of Leibniz
'Poe is a bad poet, a poor critic, and a dredful prose stylist in his celebrated tales, poe is lso inescapable. No other American Writer- Whitman, Emerson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Faulkner- is so widely read, both domestically and abroad. In translation, Poe inmproves greatly, as French and German versions demonstrate...'