A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

Gay

HUMPHREY MILFORD

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW

NEW YORK, TORONTO, MELBOURNE, BOMBAY

1913

PREFATORY NOTE

The object of this compilation is to provide a corpus of representative parodies and imitations of a century, beginning with Rejected Addresses (1812), which practically marked the birth of modern parody, and are here printed in their entirety. Prose parodies, excepting those in Rejected Addresses, have been excluded; the derivation of the word 'parody' may be referred to in justification. Emerson wrote in his 'Fable'

'——all sorts of things and weather