1st Edition

Parodies of the Romantic Age Vol 2 Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin and Other Parodic Writings

By Graeme Stones, John Strachan Copyright 1998

    This volume collects together a wealth of material ranging from verse parodies originally published in pamphlet form, to longer works such as P.G. Patmore's parodies of the works of Byron, Lamb and Hazlitt.

    Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Introductory note -- From Probationary Odes for the Laureateship -- George Ellis -- Introductory note -- Bozzy and Piozzi, or, the British Biographers, A Town Eclogue (1786), John Wolcot (Teter Pindar') -- Introductory note -- From The Baviad (1791), William Gifford -- Introductory note -- Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers' (1797), Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Introductory note -- From 'The Amatory Poems of Abel Shuffiebottom' (1799), Robert Sou they -- Introductory note -- From The Port Folio (1804), Robert Rose -- Introductory note -- From Rejected Addresses, or the New Theatrum Poetarum (1812), James and Horace Smith -- Introductory note -- From The Lady of the Wreck' (1812), George Colman the Younger -- Introductory note -- Verses supposed to be written by the Editor of the Examiner, whilst in Prison' (n. d.), Attrib. Theodore Hook -- Introductory note -- From The Poetic Mirror; or The Living Bards of Britain (1816), James Hogg -- Introductory note -- From Prospectus and Specimen of an Intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft, of Stow-Market, in Suffolk, Harness and Collar-Makers. Intended to comprise the most Interesting Particulars relating to King Arthur and his Round Table (1817), John Hookham Frere -- Introductory note -- From Beppo (1818), Lord Byron -- Introductory note -- There is a fever of the spirit' (1818), Thomas Love Peacock -- Introductory note -- Peter Bell. A Lyrical Ballad (1819), John Hamilton Reynolds -- Introductory note -- From Peter Bell the Third (1819), Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Introductory note -- Benjamin the Waggoner, a Ryghte merrie and conceitede Tale in Verse. A Fragment (1819), Anon. -- Introductory note -- The Political House that Jack Built (1819), William Hone -- Introductory note -- Don Juan Unread' (1819), William Maginn -- Introductory note -- Evening' (1820), Anon. -- Introductory note -- The Nose-Drop: A Physiological Ballad' (1821), Anon. -- Introductory note -- Elegy on my Tom Cat' (1821), William Maginn -- Introductory note -- From Paper Money Lyrics (1825), Thomas Love Peacock -- Introductory note -- From Odes and Addresses to Great People (1825), Thomas Hood -- Introductory note -- The London University or, Stinkomalee Triumphans' (1828), Richard Harris Barham -- Introductory note -- Cabbages' (n. d.), William Makepeace Thackeray -- Introductory note -- Fragment in imitation of Wordsworth' (n. d.), Catherine Fanshawe -- Introductory note -- From The Fudges in England (1835), Thomas Moore -- Introductory note -- On Reading Wordsworth's Excursion' (n.d.), Samuel Smith -- Introductory note -- Fish have their Times to Bite' (1861), Anon. -- Introductory note -- The Ancient Philosopher. By a Literary Medium' (1868), William Prowse -- Introductory note -- The Power of Science' (1880), J. Brunton Stephens -- Silent Corrections -- Notes.