Snarl (“an old,
pettish fellow, a great admirer of the last age and a declaimer against the vices of this, and privately very vicious himself.”)
Kaynak: The Virtuosohad written a "coruscatingly funny novel in the form of a
pettish, bookish, grumpy, reactionary complaint against the last two decades",
Kaynak: The Closing of the American Mindhad written a "coruscatingly funny novel in the form of a
pettish, bookish, grumpy, reactionary complaint against the last two decades",
Kaynak: Allan Bloom"Lamia" confusing, and describing "St Agnes" as having a "sense of
pettish disgust" and "a 'Don Juan' style of mingling up sentiment and
Kaynak: John Keats