Education: Updating John's Sockdolager

The new Bartlett's adds Dylan and shrinks Shakespeare

He was a passionate fisherman and a passionate taxonomist, and so his collected works include Catalogue of Books on Angling, including Ichthyology, Pisciculture, Etc. Once when he caught a seven-pound trout, he sent it to his friend and whist partner James Russell Lowell, and Lowell rewarded him (and the trout) with some forellean verses that began:

Fit for an Abbott of Theleme, The whole Cardinals' College, or The Pope himself to see in dream Before his Lenten vision gleam, He lies there, the sockdolager!

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