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A Century of Parody and Imitation

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF AUTHORS, WITH THEIR PARODIES OR IMITATIONS

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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

Maginn, William (1793–1842):

The Rime of the Auncient Waggonere Coleridge 208

To a Bottle of Old Port Moore 213

The Last Lamp of the Alley Moore 214

The Galiongee Byron 214

Martin, Sir Theodore (1816–1909):

The Lay of the Lovelorn Tennyson 258

Moore, Thomas (1779–1852):

The Numbering of the Clergy Sir C. H. Williams 155

Murray, Robert Fuller (1863–1894):

The Poet's Hat Tennyson 382

A Tennysonian Fragment Tennyson 383

Andrew M'Crie Poe 384

Newell, Robert Henry ('Orpheus C. Kerr') (1836–1901):

Rejected National Anthem W. C. Bryant 333

" " " Emerson 333

" " " Willis 333

" " " Longfellow 334

" " " Whittier 334

" " " O. W. Holmes 334

" " " Stoddard 335

" " " Aldrich 335

Peacock, Thomas Love (1785–1866):

A Border Ballad Scott 156

The Wise Men of Gotham Coleridge 157

Fly-by-Night Southey 160

Ye Kite-Flyers of Scotland Campbell 162

Love and the Flimsies Moore 163

Song by Mr. Cypress Byron 164

Reynolds, John Hamilton (1796–1852):

Peter Bell: a Lyrical Ballad Wordsworth 219

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882):

MacCracken Tennyson 290

The Brothers Tennyson 290

Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822):

Peter Bell the Third Wordsworth 179

Skeat, Walter William (1831–1912):

A Clerk ther was of Cauntebrigge also Chaucer 327

Smith, Horatio (1779–1849):

Loyal Effusion Fitzgerald 1

An Address without a Phœnix See Note 7

The Living Lustres Moore 19

Drury's Dirge 'Laura Matilda' 29

A Tale of Drury Lane Scott 32

Johnson's Ghost Johnson 38

The Beautiful Incendiary W. R. Spencer 42

Fire and Ale Lewis 46

Architectural Atoms Busby 54

Punch's Apotheosis Hook 76

Smith, James (1775–1839):

The Baby's Debut Wordsworth 4

Hampshire Farmer's Address Cobbett 15

The Rebuilding Southey 21

Playhouse Musings Coleridge 49

Drury Lane Hustings 'A Pic-Nic Poet' 52

Theatrical Alarm-Bell Editor of the Morning Post 61

The Theatre Crabbe 64

Macbeth Shakespeare-Poole 70

The Stranger Kotzebue-Thompson 72

George Barnwell Lillo 73

Smith, James and Horatio:

Cui Bono Byron 9

Southey, Robert (1774–1843):

Amatory Poems of Abel Shufflebottom:

1. Delia at Play 144

2. To a Painter attempting Delia's Portrait 144

3. He proves the Existence of a Soul 145

4. 'I would I were that portly Gentleman' 145

Love Elegies:

1. Delia's Pocket-Handkerchief 146

2. Delia Singing 147

3. Delia's Hair 148

4. The Theft of a Lock 149

(All imitations of the Della Cruscans.)

Stephen, James Kenneth (1859–1892):

Ode on a Retrospect of Eton College Gray 374

A Sonnet Wordsworth 376

Sincere Flattery of R. B. Browning 376

Sincere Flattery of W. W. (Americanus) Whitman 377

To A. T. M. F. W. H. Myers 378

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909):

The Poet and the Woodlouse E. B. Browning 336

The Person of the House: The Kid Patmore 338

Nephelidia Swinburne 340

Taylor, Bayard (1825–1878):

Ode on a Jar of Pickles Keats 274

Gwendoline E. B. Browning 275

Angelo orders his Dinner R. Browning 276

The Shrimp-Gatherers Jean Ingelow 277

Cimabuella D. G. Rossetti 278

From 'The Taming of Themistocles' W. Morris 280

All or Nothing Emerson 281

The Ballad of Hiram Hover Whittier 282

The Sewing-Machine Longfellow 284

Taylor, Tom (1817–1880):

The Laureate's Bust at Trinity Tennyson 266

Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–1863):

Cabbages L. E. L. 242

Larry O'Toole Lever 242

The Willow Tree Thackeray 243

Dear Jack Fawkes 245

The Almack's Adieu 'Wapping Old Stairs' 247

The Knightly Guerdon 'Wapping Old Stairs' 248

The Ghazul:

The Rocks Oriental Love Song 245

The Merry Bard Oriental Love Song 246

The Caique Oriental Love Song 246

Thompson, Francis (1859–1907):

Wake! for the Ruddy Ball has taken flight FitzGerald 379

Traill, Henry Duff (1842–1900):

Vers de Société Locker-Lampson 347

The Puss and the Boots R. Browning 348

After Dilettante Concetti Rossetti 350

Twiss, Horace (1787–1849):

The Patriot's Progress Shakespeare 166

Our Parodies are Ended Shakespeare 167

Fashion Milton 167

Verses Cowper 171

Unknown:

The Town Life Rogers 386

Fish have their times to bite Hemans 387

Another Ode to the North-East Wind Kingsley 388

A Girtonian Funeral Browning 390

REJECTED ADDRESSES[1] OR THE NEW THEATRUM POETARUM

Fired that the House reject him!——s death! I'll print it, and shame the fools. Pope.

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