Note 171 — A BOOK FOR A RAINY DAY
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Henry Kett (1761-1825) was a frequent subject of caricatures. The learned Thomas Warton’s comment on his “Juvenile Poems” was—
“Our Kett not a poet! Why, how can you say so? For if he’s no Ovid I’m sure he’s a Naso.”
From his long face he was known as “Horse” Kett, and, enjoying the joke, he would say that he was going to “trot down the ‘High.’”