transcendent afterthoughts

It’s a very fine book, but my favorite of all sentences in it is at the very end, in the Suggestions for Further Reading:

For transcendent afterthoughts on many of these matters, Justus George Lawler’s Celestial Pantomime (New Haven, 1979) is remarkable, but cannot be recommended to beginners.

• John Hollander’s Rhyme’s Reason, A Guide to English Verse