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Gustave Doré's illustration of the fable, published in 1880. The vultures and the pigeons is a fable of Jean de la Fontaine [1] adapted from a Latin original by Laurentius Abstemius, [2] where it was titled De acciptribus inter se inimicis quos columbae pacaverant (The warring hawks pacified by doves).
He taught at Southwestern College, and Vassar College.He worked for the National Archives from 1941 to 1943, and from 1948 to 1955, for the Business History Foundation.. In 1954, he was a Fulbright lecturer at Melbourne University.
The poem's reputation mushroomed in 1911, when a New York Times editor saw "The Black Vulture" in Sterling's book The House of Orchids and Other Poems and was impressed. He placed the poem as the New York Times Review of Books front cover's lead item and praised the sonnet as showing "much imagination and literary skill."
The fable only existed in Greek sources formerly and concerns a lion and boar who fight each other to be the first to drink from a spring. Observing vultures gathering to swoop on the loser, the two fierce animals decide that it is better to have friendly relations rather than be eaten by such vile creatures.
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