A Century of Parody and Imitation
JAMES AND HORACE SMITH
A CENTURY OF PARODY AND IMITATION
EDITED BY
WALTER JERROLD
AND
R. M. LEONARD
'No author ever spared a brother,
Wits are gamecocks to one another.'
Gay
HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW
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ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS, WITH THEIR PARODIES OR IMITATIONS
HORACE AND JAMES SMITH
LOYAL EFFUSION.
THE BABY'S DEBUT.
AN ADDRESS
CUI BONO?
THE LIVING LUSTRES.
THE REBUILDING.
DRURY'S DIRGE.
A TALE OF DRURY LANE.
THE BEAUTIFUL INCENDIARY.
FIRE AND ALE.
PLAYHOUSE MUSINGS.
DRURY LANE HUSTINGS.
ARCHITECTURAL ATOMS.
THEATRICAL ALARM-BELL.
THE THEATRE.
MACBETH.
THE STRANGER.
GEORGE BARNWELL.
PUNCH'S APOTHEOSIS.
GEORGE ELLIS.
ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COLLEGE LIBRARY.
GEORGE CRABBE.
INEBRIETY.
ODE.
FRAGMENT.
JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE.
A FABLE.
THE COURSE OF TIME.
GEORGE CANNING AND JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE.
INSCRIPTION
THE SOLDIERS' FRIEND.
THE SOLDIER'S WIFE
THE FRIEND OF HUMANITY AND THE KNIFE-GRINDER.
JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE, GEORGE CANNING, AND GEORGE ELLIS.
THE LOVES OF THE TRIANGLES.
GEORGE CANNING AND GEORGE ELLIS.
SONG BY ROGERO.
JAMES HOGG.
WALSINGHAME'S SONG
THE FLYING TAILOR.
THE CHERUB.
ISABELLE.
THE CURSE OF THE LAUREATE.
THE GUDE GREYE KATT.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS.
ROBERT SOUTHEY.
THE AMATORY POEMS OF ABEL SHUFFLEBOTTOM.
LOVE ELEGIES.
CHARLES LAMB.
EPICEDIUM—GOING OR GONE.
HYPOCHONDRIACUS.
NONSENSE VERSES.
THOMAS MOORE.
THE NUMBERING OF THE CLERGY.
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK.
A BORDER BALLAD.
THE WISE MEN OF GOTHAM.
PROEMIUM OF AN EPIC,
'FLY-BY-NIGHT.'
YE KITE-FLYERS OF SCOTLAND.
LOVE AND THE FLIMSIES.
SONG BY MR. CYPRESS.
HORACE TWISS.
THE PATRIOT'S PROGRESS.
OUR PARODIES ARE ENDED.
FASHION.
VERSES.
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON.
TO MR. MURRAY.
PARENTHETICAL ADDRESS BY DR. PLAGIARY.
RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM.
MARGATE.
THE DEMOLISHED FARCE; OR, 'WHO IS THE AUTHOR?'
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.
PETER BELL THE THIRD.
WILLIAM MAGINN.
THE RIME OF THE AUNCIENT WAGGONERE.
TO A BOTTLE OF OLD PORT.
THE LAST LAMP OF THE ALLEY.
THE GALIONGEE.
JOHN KEATS.
STANZAS ON CHARLES ARMITAGE BROWN.
ON OXFORD.
HARTLEY COLERIDGE.
HE LIVED AMIDST TH' UNTRODDEN WAYS.
JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS.
PETER BELL: A LYRICAL BALLAD.
ROBERT GILFILLAN.
BLUE BONNETS OVER THE BORDER.
THOMAS HOOD.
THE IRISH SCHOOLMASTER.
HUGGINS AND DUGGINS.
SEA SONG.
'WE MET—'TWAS IN A CROWD.'
THOSE EVENING BELLS.
THE WATER PERI'S SONG.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY.
CABBAGES.
LARRY O'TOOLE.
THE WILLOW TREE.
DEAR JACK.
THE GHAZUL, OR ORIENTAL LOVE-SONG.
THE ALMACK'S ADIEU.
THE KNIGHTLY GUERDON.
WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE AYTOUN.
THE MASSACRE OF THE MACPHERSON.
A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION
THE HUSBAND'S PETITION.
CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY BROOKS.
SONNET CCCI.
FOR A' THAT AND A' THAT.
SIR THEODORE MARTIN.
THE LAY OF THE LOVELORN.
TOM TAYLOR.
THE LAUREATE'S BUST AT TRINITY.
FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON.
UNFORTUNATE MISS BAILEY.
PHOEBE CARY.
'THE DAY IS DONE.'
'WHEN LOVELY WOMAN.'
EDWARD BRADLEY ('CUTHBERT BEDE').
ON A TOASTED MUFFIN.
IN IMMEMORIAM.
BAYARD TAYLOR.
ODE ON A JAR OF PICKLES.
GWENDOLINE.
ANGELO ORDERS HIS DINNER.
THE SHRIMP-GATHERERS.
CIMABUELLA.
FROM 'THE TAMING OF THEMISTOCLES.'
ALL OR NOTHING.
THE BALLAD OF HIRAM HOVER.
THE SEWING-MACHINE.
MORTIMER COLLINS.
IF.
SALAD.
ROBERT BARNABAS BROUGH.
I'M A SHRIMP.
DANTE, GABRIEL ROSSETTI.
MACCRACKEN.
THE BROTHERS.
CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY.
ODE TO TOBACCO.
BEER.
WANDERERS.
PROVERBIAL PHILOSOPHY.
THE COCK AND THE BULL.
LOVERS, AND A REFLECTION.
BALLAD.
CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON ('LEWIS CARROLL')
HOW DOTH THE LITTLE CROCODILE
'TIS THE VOICE OF THE LOBSTER.
TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE BAT.
YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM.
HIAWATHA'S PHOTOGRAPHING.
THE THREE VOICES.
BEAUTIFUL SOUP.
THOMAS HOOD THE YOUNGER.
RAVINGS.
IN MEMORIAM TECHNICAM.
THE WEDDING.
POETS AND LINNETS.
WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT.
A CLERK THER WAS OF CAUNTEBRIGGE ALSO.
HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH.
ONLY SEVEN.
CHATEAUX D'ESPAGNE.
ROBERT HENRY NEWELL.
REJECTED NATIONAL ANTHEMS.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE.
THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE
THE PERSON OF THE HOUSE.
NEPHELIDIA.
FRANCIS BRET HARTE.
A GEOLOGICAL MADRIGAL.
MRS. JUDGE JENKINS.
THE WILLOWS.
HENRY DUFF TRAILL.
VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ.
FROM 'THE PUSS AND THE BOOTS.'
AFTER DILETTANTE CONCETTI.
ANDREW LANG.
'OH, NO, WE NEVER MENTION HER.'
BALLADE OF CRICKET.
BRAHMA.
THE PALACE OF BRIC-À-BRAC.
'GAILY THE TROUBADOUR.'
ARTHUR CLEMENT HILTON.
THE VULTURE AND THE HUSBANDMAN.
THE HEATHEN PASS-EE.
HENRY CUYLER BUNNER.
HOME, SWEET HOME, WITH VARIATIONS.
JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN.
ODE ON A RETROSPECT OF ETON COLLEGE.
A SONNET.
SINCERE FLATTERY OF R. B.
SINCERE FLATTERY OF W. W. (AMERICANUS).
TO A. T. M.
FRANCIS THOMPSON.
WAKE! FOR THE RUDDY BALL HAS TAKEN FLIGHT.
ROBERT FULLER MURRAY.
THE POET'S HAT.
A TENNYSONIAN FRAGMENT.
ANDREW M'CRIE.
UNKNOWN.
THE TOWN LIFE
FISH HAVE THEIR TIMES TO BITE.
ANOTHER ODE TO THE NORTH-EAST WIND
A GIRTONIAN FUNERAL.
NOTES
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
INDEX OF AUTHORS PARODIED OR IMITATED
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
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