Lame and o’erburthen’d, and “screaming its wretchedness!”
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Ne’er talk of ears again! look at thy spelling book;
Dilworth and Dyche are both mad at thy quantities—
Dactylics, call’st thou ’em?—“God help thee, silly one!”
Both these Parodies were written by William Gifford, the Editor of the The Anti-Jacobin.
SOUTHEY’S OFFICIAL POEMS.
Southey wrote an ode on the first overthrow of Napoleon, entitled “Carmen Triumphale, for the year 1814,” this gave James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, the hint for a long and uninteresting parody “The Curse of the Laureate, Carmen Judiciale,” published in “The Poetic Mirror,” in 1816.
But of all Southey’s official poems “The Vision of Judgment,” published in 1820, on the death of George III, was the most important, and the one which received the greatest attention, praise, blame, and ridicule from his contemporaries, according to their various shades of opinion.