Punch, June 1845. (This parody was accompanied by a portrait of Mr. Benjamin Disraeli).
A FEW WORDS ON POETS IN GENERAL, AND ONE IN PARTICULAR.
BY THE GHOST OF T— H—D.
"What's in a name?"—Shakespeare.
I.
By different names were Poets call'd
In different climes and times;
The Welsh and Irish call'd him Bard,
Who was confined to rhymes.