Rahda looks much more like Mary did when we met. I wish you good night, my dear, But first shit in your bed and make it burst. Art history professor Maurice Frank Woods praised The Banjo Lesson in American Visions by writing, x201C; Tanner skillfully and sympathetically captured a tender exchange between the wisdom of age and the innocence of youth in the form of an elderly man instructing a boy on how to play the banjo. Cambridge Cambridge University Press.