Re: Quotation haibun & prose poems
Posted by:
calonlan (IP Logged)
Date: 28 August, 2004 08:46PM
Dear folk,
Clark found the Mormon's ( on those rare occasions where they might
be discussed) an amusing fraud, having recognized early on that their
book was a spurious attempt to imitate Elizabethan English, and being
quite cognizant of the lawsuits brought against them by the family of Congregational minister, The Rev. Solomon Spaulding, whose manuscript of a very bad (and the second of two) novel had been stolen from the print shop the same day a certain Sidney Rigdon quit work there. Mr.
Rigdon reappeared more than 17 years later as one of the "scribes" writing down Joe Smith's dictation as he "translated" the golden tablets. Some 15 years ago, long after Clark's death, 17 pages in the middle of the original manuscript were copied and proven by handwriting analysis to be the work of Rev. Spaulding - who died in
1817 - The book of Mormon appeared in 1830 about. "O quae mutatio rerum."
drf