A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

[P. 294.] The real beverage for feasting gods on. The allusion in the seventh stanza is to Jupiter and the Indian Ale:

'Bring it!' quoth the Cloud-Compeller,

And the wine-god brought the beer—

'Port and Claret are like water

To the noble stuff that's here.'

Calverley also parodied Byron in Arcades Ambo.

[P. 297.] Wanderers. Tennyson's 'The Brook,' with the song of the brook:

I come from haunts of coot and hern,

I make a sudden sally,

but ending in a parody of Tennysonian blank verse. In his Collections and Recollections, Mr. G. W. E. Russell has quoted the last six lines, 'which even appreciative critics generally overlook.... Will any one stake his literary reputation on the assertion that these lines are not really Tennyson's?' (The poem is from Fly-Leaves, 1872, by permission of Messrs. George Bell and Sons.)