J. M. LOWRY, 1884.
The plot of the Idyll, "Gareth and Lynnette," was given, in burlesque style, by Mr. Martin Wood in "The Bath and Cheltenham Gazette" shortly after the appearance of the original.
"The Quest of the Holy Poker," a parody in blank verse appeared in Punch, March 5, 1870.
Three long Idyllic parodies, entitled "Willie and Minnie" appeared in Kottabos, a Trinity College magazine, published in Dublin by Mr. W. McGee, in 1876.
The St. Paul's Magazine of January, 1872, contained a most amusing political Idyll, entitled "The Latest Tournament"—an Idyll of the Queen (respectfully inscribed to Alfred Tennyson, Esq., Poet Laureate). This parody, which consists of nearly 400 lines, describes, in a mock-heroic style, all the principal political celebrities of the day, its satire being aimed at the supposed Republican tendencies of the Liberal party.
"The Prince's Noses," a modern Idyll, by W. J. Linton, a parody of Tennyson's blank verse, appeared in Scribner's Monthly Magazine, April, 1880.
Punch, May 27, 1882, contained a poem entitled "On the Hill; or, Tennysonian Fragments, picked up near the Grand Stand." This was an imitation of style only.
"Tory Revels" (slightly altered from Tennyson) in Punch, August 26, 1882, commenced thus:—
"SIR GYPES TOLLODDLE, all an Autumn day,