A Century of Parody and Imitation

by Unknown

R. M. LEONARD.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS, WITH THEIR PARODIES OR IMITATIONS

Aytoun, William Edmondstoune (1813–1865):		PAGE
The Massacre of the Macpherson	'From the Gaelic'	[250]
A Midnight Meditation	Lytton	[252]
The Husband's Petition	Aytoun	[254]
Barham, Richard Harris ('Thomas Ingoldsby') (1788–1845):
Margate	Byron	[176]
'Not a sous had he got'	Wolfe	[176]
The Demolished Farce	Bayly	[178]
'Bede, Cuthbert.' See [Bradley].
Bradley, Edward ('Cuthbert Bede') (1827–1889):
On a Toasted Muffin	Lytton	[272]
In Immemoriam	Tennyson	[273]
Brooks, Charles William Shirley (1816–1874):
To my Five New Kittens	Tupper	[256]
For a' that and a' that	Burns	[256]
Brough, Robert Barnabas (1828–1860):
I'm a Shrimp! Old Song:	'I'm Afloat'	[289]
Bunner, Henry Cuyler (1855–1896):
Home, Sweet Home, with Variations	Swinburne	[365]
"  "  "  "	Bret Harte	[367]
"  "  "  "	Austin Dobson	[368]
"  "  "  "	Goldsmith	[369]
"  "  "  "	Pope	[369]
"  "  "  "	Walt Whitman	[370]
Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824):
To Mr. Murray	Cowper	[173]
Parenthetical Address by Dr. Plagiary	Busby	[174]
Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831–1884):
Ode to Tobacco	Longfellow	[292]
Beer	Byron	[293]
Wanderers	Tennyson	[296]
Proverbial Philosophy	Tupper	[298]
The Cock and the Bull	Browning	[301]
Lovers, and a Reflection	J. Ingelow	[304]
The Auld Wife	J. Ingelow	[306]
Canning, George (1770–1827) and George Ellis (1753–1815):
Song by Rogero	German Tragedy	[107]
Canning, George, and John Hookham Frere (1769–1846):
Inscription	Southey	[93]
The Soldier's Friend	Southey	[93]
The Soldier's Wife	Southey (and Coleridge)	[94]
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder	Southey	[95]
See [Frere], [Canning], and [Ellis].
'Carroll, Lewis.' See [Dodgson].
Cary, Phœbe (1824–1871):
'The Day is done'	Longfellow	[270]
'That very time I saw'	Shakespeare	[271]
'When lovely Woman'	Goldsmith	[271]
Coleridge, Hartley (1796–1849):
He lived amidst th' untrodden ways	Wordsworth	[218]
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834):
Sonnets attempted in the manner of contemporary writers
(Coleridge, Lamb, and Charles Lloyd):
1. 'Pensive at Eve'		[142]
2. To Simplicity		[142]
3. On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country		[143]
Collins, Mortimer (1827–1876):
If	Swinburne	[286]
Salad:
'O cool in the summer is salad'	Swinburne	[287]
'Waitress, with eyes so marvellous black'	R. Browning	[287]
'King Arthur, growing very tired indeed'	Tennyson	[287]
Crabbe, George (1754–1832):
Inebriety	Pope	[86]
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge ('Lewis Carroll') (1832–1898):
'How doth the little Crocodile'	Watts	[308]
''Tis the voice of the Lobster'	Watts	[308]
'Twinkle, twinkle, little Bat'	Jane Taylor	[308]
'You are old, Father William'	Southey	[309]
Hiawatha's Photographing	Longfellow	[310]
The Three Voices	Tennyson	[314]
Beautiful Soup	Uncertain	[322]
Ellis, George (1753–1815):
Elegy written in a College Library	Gray	[81]
See [Frere], [Canning], and [Ellis].
Fanshawe, Catherine Maria (1765–1834):
Ode	Gray	[87]
Fragment	Wordsworth	[89]
Frere, John Hookham (1769–1846):
A Fable	Dryden	[92]
The Course of Time	Pollok	[92]
Frere, John Hookham, George Canning, and George Ellis:
The Loves of the Triangles	E. Darwin	[97]
See [Canning] and [Frere].
Gilfillan, Robert (1798–1850):
Blue Bonnets over the Border	Scott	[228]
Harte, Francis Bret (1839–1902):
A Geological Madrigal	Shenstone	[342]
Mrs. Judge Jenkins	Whittier	[343]
The Willows	Poe	[344]
Hilton, Arthur Clement (1851–1877):
The Vulture and the Husbandman	'Lewis Carroll'	[358]
The Heathen Pass-ee	Bret Harte	[360]
Octopus	Swinburne	[363]
Hogg, James (1770–1835):
Walsingham's song from 'Wat o' the Cleuch'	Scott	[109]
The Flying Tailor	Wordsworth	[110]
The Cherub	Coleridge	[118]
Isabelle	Coleridge	[120]
The Curse of the Laureate	Southey	[123]
The Gude Greye Katt	Hogg	[129]
Hood, Thomas (1799–1845):
The Irish Schoolmaster	Spenser	[229]
Huggins and Duggins	Pope	[237]
Sea Song	Dibdin	[239]
'We met—'twas in a Crowd'	T. H. Bayly	[240]
Those Evening Bells	Moore	[241]
The Water Peri's Song	Moore	[241]
Hood, Thomas—the Younger (1835–1874):
Ravings by E., a Poe-t	Poe	[323]
In Memoriam Technicam	Tennyson	[324]
The Wedding	'Owen Meredith'	[324]
Poets and Linnets	R. Browning	[325]
'Ingoldsby, Thomas.' See [Barham].
Keats, John (1795–1821):
Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown	Spenser	[216]
On Oxford	Wordsworth	[217]
'Kerr, Orpheus C.' See [Newell].
Lamb, Charles (1775–1834):
Epicedium	Drayton	[151]
Hypochondriacus	Burton	[153]
Nonsense Verses	Lamb	[154]
Lang, Andrew (1844–1912):
'Oh, no, we never mention her'	Rossetti	[353]
Ballade of Cricket	Swinburne	[354]
Brahma	Emerson	[355]
The Palace of Bric-à-Brac	Swinburne	[355]
'Gaily the Troubadour'	W. Morris	[356]
Leigh, Henry Sambrooke (1837–1883):
Only Seven	Wordsworth	[329]
Chateaux d'Espagne	Poe	[330]
Locker-Lampson, Frederick (1821–1895):
Unfortunate Miss Bailey	Tennyson	[268]
Maginn, William (1793–1842):
The Rime of the Auncient Waggonere	Coleridge	[208]
To a Bottle of Old Port	Moore	[213]
The Last Lamp of the Alley	Moore	[214]
The Galiongee	Byron	[214]
Martin, Sir Theodore (1816–1909):
The Lay of the Lovelorn	Tennyson	[258]
Moore, Thomas (1779–1852):
The Numbering of the Clergy	Sir C. H. Williams	[155]
Murray, Robert Fuller (1863–1894):
The Poet's Hat	Tennyson	[382]
A Tennysonian Fragment	Tennyson	[383]
Andrew M'Crie	Poe	[384]
Newell, Robert Henry ('Orpheus C. Kerr') (1836–1901):
Rejected National Anthem	W. C. Bryant	[333]
"   "   "	Emerson	[333]
"   "   "	Willis	[333]
"   "   "	Longfellow	[334]
"   "   "	Whittier	[334]
"   "   "	O. W. Holmes	[334]
"   "   "	Stoddard	[335]
"   "   "	Aldrich	[335]
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785–1866):
A Border Ballad	Scott	[156]
The Wise Men of Gotham	Coleridge	[157]
Fly-by-Night	Southey	[160]
Ye Kite-Flyers of Scotland	Campbell	[162]
Love and the Flimsies	Moore	[163]
Song by Mr. Cypress	Byron	[164]
Reynolds, John Hamilton (1796–1852):
Peter Bell: a Lyrical Ballad	Wordsworth	[219]
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882):
MacCracken	Tennyson	[290]
The Brothers	Tennyson	[290]
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822):
Peter Bell the Third	Wordsworth	[179]
Skeat, Walter William (1831–1912):
A Clerk ther was of Cauntebrigge also	Chaucer	[327]
Smith, Horatio (1779–1849):
Loyal Effusion	Fitzgerald	[1]
An Address without a Phœnix	See Note	[7]
The Living Lustres	Moore	[19]
Drury's Dirge	'Laura Matilda'	[29]
A Tale of Drury Lane	Scott	[32]
Johnson's Ghost	Johnson	[38]
The Beautiful Incendiary	W. R. Spencer	[42]
Fire and Ale	Lewis	[46]
Architectural Atoms	Busby	[54]
Punch's Apotheosis	Hook	[76]
Smith, James (1775–1839):
The Baby's Debut	Wordsworth	[4]
Hampshire Farmer's Address	Cobbett	[15]
The Rebuilding	Southey	[21]
Playhouse Musings	Coleridge	[49]
Drury Lane Hustings	'A Pic-Nic Poet'	[52]
Theatrical Alarm-Bell	Editor of the Morning Post	[61]
The Theatre	Crabbe	[64]
Macbeth	Shakespeare-Poole	[70]
The Stranger	Kotzebue-Thompson	[72]
George Barnwell	Lillo	[73]
Smith, James and Horatio:
Cui Bono	Byron	[9]
Southey, Robert (1774–1843):
Amatory Poems of Abel Shufflebottom:
1. Delia at Play		[144]
2. To a Painter attempting Delia's Portrait		[144]
3. He proves the Existence of a Soul		[145]
4. 'I would I were that portly Gentleman'		[145]
Love Elegies:
1. Delia's Pocket-Handkerchief		[146]
2. Delia Singing		[147]
3. Delia's Hair		[148]
4. The Theft of a Lock		[149]
(All imitations of the Della Cruscans.)
Stephen, James Kenneth (1859–1892):
Ode on a Retrospect of Eton College	Gray	[374]
A Sonnet	Wordsworth	[376]
Sincere Flattery of R. B.	Browning	[376]
Sincere Flattery of W. W. (Americanus)	Whitman	[377]
To A. T. M.	F. W. H. Myers	[378]
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909):
The Poet and the Woodlouse	E. B. Browning	[336]
The Person of the House: The Kid	Patmore	[338]
Nephelidia	Swinburne	[340]
Taylor, Bayard (1825–1878):
Ode on a Jar of Pickles	Keats	[274]
Gwendoline	E. B. Browning	[275]
Angelo orders his Dinner	R. Browning	[276]
The Shrimp-Gatherers	Jean Ingelow	[277]
Cimabuella	D. G. Rossetti	[278]
From 'The Taming of Themistocles'	W. Morris	[280]
All or Nothing	Emerson	[281]
The Ballad of Hiram Hover	Whittier	[282]
The Sewing-Machine	Longfellow	[284]
Taylor, Tom (1817–1880):
The Laureate's Bust at Trinity	Tennyson	[266]
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–1863):
Cabbages	L. E. L.	[242]
Larry O'Toole	Lever	[242]
The Willow Tree	Thackeray	[243]
Dear Jack	Fawkes	[245]
The Almack's Adieu	'Wapping Old Stairs'	[247]
The Knightly Guerdon	'Wapping Old Stairs'	[248]
The Ghazul:
The Rocks	Oriental Love Song	[245]
The Merry Bard	Oriental Love Song	[246]
The Caique	Oriental Love Song	[246]
Thompson, Francis (1859–1907):
Wake! for the Ruddy Ball has taken flight	FitzGerald	[379]
Traill, Henry Duff (1842–1900):
Vers de Société	Locker-Lampson	[347]
The Puss and the Boots	R. Browning	[348]
After Dilettante Concetti	Rossetti	[350]
Twiss, Horace (1787–1849):
The Patriot's Progress	Shakespeare	[166]
Our Parodies are Ended	Shakespeare	[167]
Fashion	Milton	[167]
Verses	Cowper	[171]
Unknown:
The Town Life	Rogers	[386]
Fish have their times to bite	Hemans	[387]
Another Ode to the North-East Wind	Kingsley	[388]
A Girtonian Funeral	Browning	[390]

REJECTED ADDRESSES[1]
OR
THE NEW THEATRUM POETARUM

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Fired that the House reject him!——s death!

I'll print it, and shame the fools.

Pope.

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