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V. John Bull

Washington Irving (1783–1859
An old song, made by an aged old pate,
Of an old worshipful gentleman who had a great estate,
That kept a brave old house at a bountiful rate,
And an old porter to relieve the poor at his gate.
With an old study fill’d full of learned old books,
With an old reverend chaplain, you might know him by his looks,
With an old buttery hatch worn quite off the hooks,
And an old kitchen that maintained half-a-dozen old cooks.
Like an old courtier, etc.”
—OLD SONG
Yhe arthor states in this essay that he does not like this poem. By stating that the nicknames used in the poem were unneccesary and were not called for as well. His thesis statement stated all his dislikes and likes he would be talking as well. "Thus they have taken a singular delight in exhibiting their most private foibles in a laughable point of view; and have been so successful in their delineations, that there is scarcely a being in actual existence more absolutely present to the public mind than that eccentric personage, John Bull."
I did not really know whwere the conclusion was going with this author. But his writing style was a critic so to speak about this poem.