In opposition to a creed from this book, a later critic avowed belief “that my soul is a dark forest,” in which “strange gods” come and go in “the clearing of my known self.” This book depicts a writing practice based on paraphrasing sentences from Spectator essays, jumbling them up, and then rewriting them weeks later. A “Bar & Grill” in Ann Petry’s novel The Street is named in reference to this book, which includes a list ending in a resolution to “Imitate Jesus and Socrates” to practice (*) “Humility.” D. H. Lawrence’s Studies in Classic American Literature mocks this book’s method of tracking “13 virtues” in a “plan for attaining moral perfection.” In this book, the narrator founds the Junto club after leaving his brother’s New England Courant. For 10 points, name this memoir of a founding father who owned a print shop in Philadelphia. ■END■
ANSWER: Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin [or Franklin’s Autobiography; accept anything indicating the life or memoirs of Benjamin or Ben Franklin]
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