Genre:

Introduction / Poetry

Subjects:

Publishing, Authorship, Exploration, Amusement

    The ode particularly praises the Mirror's accounts of far-flung people and places. One passage reads: 'The Polar ices—(Parry did not find them / So pleasing to his taste as those we eat [...]) / The Polar ice—Afric's burning sands, / All, all, thou shew'st us when it suits our leisure'.