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The Spirit of the Public Journals for 1823, London, 1824.
THE ANTI-JACOBIN.
As the early poems of Robert Southey were repeatedly parodied in this celebrated journal, a few words as to its contents may conveniently be inserted here. “The Anti-Jacobin, or Weekly Examiner,” was edited by W. Gifford, and the principal contributors to its pages were the Rt. Hon. George Canning, Mr. John Hookham Frere, Mr. Jenkinson (afterwards Earl of Liverpool), Mr. George Ellis, Lord Clare, Lord Mornington (afterwards Marquis Wellesley), and Dr. John Whittaker. The Poems in The Anti-Jacobin were not exclusively political, and the following is a list of all that can be properly termed Parodies, omitting only those which have already been included in the collection of Parodies on Southey.
La Sainte Guillotine, a new song attempted from the French. (Tune—“O’er the vine-covered hills and gay regions of France.”)
The Progress of Man, a Didactic poem. Written to ridicule Mr. R. Payne Knight’s The Progress of Civil Society, a Didactic Poem.
Chevy Chase, a parody founded upon the Duke of Northumberland’s attempt to evade the payment of Income Tax.
The Loves of the Triangles, a parody of Dr. Darwin’s Loves of the Plants.
Brissot’s Ghost, a parody on Glover’s Ballad of Admiral Hosier’s Ghost.