A Century of Parody and Imitation

The word 'century' has been interpreted with some licence. The work of living parodists does not fall within the scope of this collection, and it is a real self-denying ordinance which forbids the inclusion of triumphs by Sir Frederick Pollock, Mr. Owen Seaman, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Mr. Barry Pain, the Rev. Anthony Deane, and others who, in their undergraduate days, enlivened the periodicals of Oxford and Cambridge, or to-day show their dexterity in the pages of Punch. By way of recompense, the volume contains parodies by some, still living in 1812, whose work was published before Rejected Addresses. The parodies which follow therefore range from George Ellis, who was born in 1753, to Andrew Lang, who died in 1912. Very sparing use has been made of anonymous work, and in this connexion it may be well to explain that 'Adolphus Smalls of Boniface' is ruled out, because, although published anonymously, it is known to be the joint composition in their Balliol days of Dr. W. W. Merry, the Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Alfred Blomfield, afterwards Bishop of Colchester.

With regard to Rejected Addresses, the publication of which may be said to have revived and established the art of parody, the genesis of the work is sufficiently explained in the authors' prefaces and notes. There were parodists before the Brothers Smith, yet their topical little volume has a lasting value, not only because of its inherent excellence, but also because it struck the note which the best later exponents of the art have followed. Published in the autumn of 1812, the book reached its fifteenth edition within two years, and its success led to the publication of a volume of certain of the Addresses that had really been sent to Drury Lane for competition. The one hundred and fifteen such Addresses which were actually submitted are, with one or two exceptions, preserved in the Manuscript Department of the British Museum.

The compilers' best thanks are due to those who have kindly allowed the use of copyright parodies or imitations--namely, to the following: Sir Herbert Stephen (and Messrs. Bowes and Bowes) for parodies by his brother J. K. Stephen; Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton and Messrs. Chatto and Windus for Swinburne's parodies; Mr. W. M. Rossetti and Messrs. Ellis for those by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Messrs. G. Bell and Sons for the copyright pieces by C. S. Calverley in Fly-Leaves; Messrs. Blackwood and Sons for Sir Theodore Martin's 'Lay of the Lovelorn' and H. D. Traill's parodies; Messrs. Bradbury, Agnew and Co. for R. F. Murray's 'Tennysonian Fragment' from Punch; Messrs. Burns and Oates for Francis Thompson's imitation of Omar Khayyam; Messrs. Chatto and Windus, and, for the American rights, the Houghton, Mifflin Company, for the parodies by Bret Harte and Bayard Taylor; the Editor of the Journal of Education for 'A Girtonian Funeral' by an unknown author, presumably deceased; Messrs. Longmans, Green and Co. for the parodies by Andrew Lang; Messrs. J. MacLehose and Sons for the additional pieces by R. F. Murray; Messrs. Metcalfe and Co. for A. G. Hilton's parodies; Messrs. Pickering and Chatto for Miss Fanshawe's pieces; and Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for the variations by H. C. Bunner on the familiar theme of 'Home, Sweet Home.' The sources of the copyright work are given in the notes at the end of the volume. The footnotes are those of the writers of the parodies.

WALTER JERROLD. R. M. LEONARD.

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS, WITH THEIR PARODIES OR IMITATIONS

AYTOUN, WILLIAM EDMONDSTOUNE (1813-1865): PAGE The Massacre of the Macpherson '_From the Gaelic_' 250 A Midnight Meditation Lytton 252 The Husband's Petition Aytoun 254

BARHAM, RICHARD HARRIS ('THOMAS INGOLDSBY') (1788-1845): Margate Byron 176 'Not a sous had he got' Wolfe 176 The Demolished Farce Bayly 178

'BEDE, CUTHBERT.' See BRADLEY.

BRADLEY, EDWARD ('CUTHBERT BEDE') (1827-1889): On a Toasted Muffin Lytton 272 In Immemoriam Tennyson 273

BROOKS, CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY (1816-1874): To my Five New Kittens Tupper 256 For a' that and a' that Burns 256

BROUGH, ROBERT BARNABAS (1828-1860): I'm a Shrimp! Old Song: '_I'm Afloat_' 289

BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER (1855-1896): Home, Sweet Home, with Variations Swinburne 365 " " " " Bret Harte 367 " " " " Austin Dobson 368 " " " " Goldsmith 369 " " " " Pope 369 " " " " Walt Whitman 370

BYRON, GEORGE GORDON, LORD (1788-1824): To Mr. Murray Cowper 173 Parenthetical Address by Dr. Plagiary Busby 174

CALVERLEY, CHARLES STUART (1831-1884): Ode to Tobacco Longfellow 292 Beer Byron 293 Wanderers Tennyson 296 Proverbial Philosophy Tupper 298 The Cock and the Bull Browning 301 Lovers, and a Reflection J. Ingelow 304 The Auld Wife J. Ingelow 306

CANNING, GEORGE (1770-1827) and GEORGE ELLIS (1753-1815): Song by Rogero German Tragedy 107

CANNING, GEORGE, and JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE (1769-1846): Inscription Southey 93 The Soldier's Friend Southey 93 The Soldier's Wife Southey (and Coleridge) 94 The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder Southey 95 See FRERE, CANNING, and ELLIS.

'CARROLL, LEWIS.' See DODGSON.

CARY, PHŒBE (1824-1871): 'The Day is done' Longfellow 270 'That very time I saw' Shakespeare 271 'When lovely Woman' Goldsmith 271

COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849): He lived amidst th' untrodden ways Wordsworth 218

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834): Sonnets attempted in the manner of contemporary writers (Coleridge, Lamb, and Charles Lloyd): 1. 'Pensive at Eve' 142 2. To Simplicity 142 3. On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country 143

COLLINS, MORTIMER (1827-1876): If Swinburne 286 Salad: 'O cool in the summer is salad' Swinburne 287 'Waitress, with eyes so marvellous black' R. Browning 287 'King Arthur, growing very tired indeed' Tennyson 287

CRABBE, GEORGE (1754-1832): Inebriety Pope 86

DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE ('LEWIS CARROLL') (1832-1898): 'How doth the little Crocodile' Watts 308 ''Tis the voice of the Lobster' Watts 308 'Twinkle, twinkle, little Bat' Jane Taylor 308 'You are old, Father William' Southey 309 Hiawatha's Photographing Longfellow 310 The Three Voices Tennyson 314 Beautiful Soup Uncertain 322

ELLIS, GEORGE (1753-1815): Elegy written in a College Library Gray 81 See FRERE, CANNING, and ELLIS.

FANSHAWE, CATHERINE MARIA (1765-1834): Ode Gray 87 Fragment Wordsworth 89

FRERE, JOHN HOOKHAM (1769-1846): A Fable Dryden 92 The Course of Time Pollok 92

FRERE, JOHN HOOKHAM, GEORGE CANNING, and GEORGE ELLIS: The Loves of the Triangles E. Darwin 97 See CANNING and FRERE.

GILFILLAN, ROBERT (1798-1850): Blue Bonnets over the Border Scott 228

HARTE, FRANCIS BRET (1839-1902): A Geological Madrigal Shenstone 342 Mrs. Judge Jenkins Whittier 343 The Willows Poe 344

HILTON, ARTHUR CLEMENT (1851-1877): The Vulture and the Husbandman '_Lewis Carroll_' 358 The Heathen Pass-ee Bret Harte 360 Octopus Swinburne 363

HOGG, JAMES (1770-1835): Walsingham's song from 'Wat o' the Cleuch' Scott 109 The Flying Tailor Wordsworth 110 The Cherub Coleridge 118 Isabelle Coleridge 120 The Curse of the Laureate Southey 123 The Gude Greye Katt Hogg 129

HOOD, THOMAS (1799-1845): The Irish Schoolmaster Spenser 229 Huggins and Duggins Pope 237 Sea Song Dibdin 239 'We met--'twas in a Crowd' T. H. Bayly 240 Those Evening Bells Moore 241 The Water Peri's Song Moore 241

HOOD, THOMAS--the Younger (1835-1874): Ravings by E., a Poe-t Poe 323 In Memoriam Technicam Tennyson 324 The Wedding '_Owen Meredith_' 324 Poets and Linnets R. Browning 325

'INGOLDSBY, THOMAS.' See BARHAM.

KEATS, JOHN (1795-1821): Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown Spenser 216 On Oxford Wordsworth 217

'KERR, ORPHEUS C.' See NEWELL.

LAMB, CHARLES (1775-1834): Epicedium Drayton 151 Hypochondriacus Burton 153 Nonsense Verses Lamb 154

LANG, ANDREW (1844-1912): 'Oh, no, we never mention her' Rossetti 353 Ballade of Cricket Swinburne 354 Brahma Emerson 355 The Palace of Bric-à-Brac Swinburne 355 'Gaily the Troubadour' W. Morris 356

LEIGH, HENRY SAMBROOKE (1837-1883): Only Seven Wordsworth 329 Chateaux d'Espagne Poe 330

LOCKER-LAMPSON, FREDERICK (1821-1895): Unfortunate Miss Bailey Tennyson 268