Note 261 — Chapter V · LITERARY ESTIMATE
Reading edition
Spence, op. cit., on p. 77, n. 2; p. 169. “After reading the Persian Tales (and I had been reading Dryden’s Fables just before them) I had some thoughts of writing a Persian Fable; in which I should have given full loose to description and imagination. It would have been a very wild thing if I had executed it, but might not have been unentertaining.”