Æsop, a Decayed Celebrity: Changing Conception as to Æsop's Personality in English Writers before Gay

Abstract

In a series of papers published now a number of years ago I endeavored to define the relation of the fable to kindred forms, proposed a classification based on the collection of Marie de France, traced certain developments in the history of the rimed fable in England, and followed out the concept of the fable as poetry in English criticism.