The Quarterly Review, London, December, 1853.
Walford’s Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer for November and December, 1883.
In 1884, Mr. K. L. Munden issued a prospectus of a proposed work, intended to contain Parallel Poems, Parodies, and Imitations of Gray’s Elegy. The book was to have been in quarto, and issued at the price of one guinea, but it does not appear in the British Museum Catalogue, so it is probable that it was not published.
In a small publication entitled Edgbastonia for November, 1884, there appeared an article on Parodies, and imitations of Gray’s Elegy, signed by K. L. Munder, probably a misprint for Munden. This contained very little additional information to that previously given in the two admirable articles in Walford’s Antiquarian Magazine above named.
A subscriber to this Collection writes that a parody entitled “An Elegy written in a London Churchyard” appeared in “The Literary Sketch Book,” for 1825, London. No such work however appears in the catalogue of the British Museum Library, the parody mentioned cannot therefore be included.
Dr. Tisdall, of Dublin, has courteously written to point out a few errors which occurred in his parody, The Elegy on Mrs. Mulligan, as it originally appeared in The Elocutionist, as well as in the reprint of it on [page 37] Parodies. The corrections are as follows:—
Verse 2, line III. A tender mother—a devoted wife.
Verse 4, line II. With vests, he-mises, with handkerchiefs, and frills.
Verse 12, line III. And scatter snowdrops as ye pass along.