SOURCE: Mary-Agnes Taylor, "The Literary Transformation of a Sluggard," in Children's Literature, Vol. 12, 1984, pp. 92-104.
In the following essay, Taylor discusses how and why various poets change the moral of the "The Grasshopper and the Ant."
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