PARODIES
OF THE WORKS OF
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS,
COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY
WALTER HAMILTON,
Fellow of the Royal Geographical and Royal Historical Societies;
Author of “A History of National Anthems and Patriotic Songs,” “A Memoir of George Cruikshank”
“The Poets Laureate of England,” “The Æsthetic Movement in England,” etc.
“I have here only made a Nosegay of culled Flowers, and have brought little moreof my own than the band which ties them.”
VOLUME V.
CONTAINING PARODIES OF
Thomas Gray’s “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,”
AND OTHER POEMS.
WILLIAM COWPER. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH.
S. T. COLERIDGE. M. G. LEWIS. LEIGH HUNT.
LORD MACAULAY.
W. M. PRAED. W. M. THACKERAY. LORD LYTTON.
P. B. Shelley. Mrs. Browning. The Ingoldsby Legends.
J. ADDISON. W. COLLINS. S. ROGERS. E. WALLER.
NATIONAL SONGS OF THE UNITED STATES.
MODERN AMERICAN POETS.
SONGS OF THE CIVIL WAR.
REEVES & TURNER, 196, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.
1888.
INTRODUCTION.
VOLUME V.
HE completion of the Fifth Volume of this collection of Parodies affords me anopportunity of acknowledging many acts of courtesy shown by gentlemen who take aninterest in the subject.
They have appreciated the importance of making the collection complete, andreliable as a book of reference on Parody and Burlesque, and by the information they havesent, have assisted me to carry out my design so far as it has gone.
In some few cases the difficulty of finding the authors has prevented me from obtaining theirpermission to insert their poems, but in every instance due acknowledgment has been made.
No trouble has been spared to obtain every parody worth quoting, to trace every poem to itsoriginal source, and to give the Authors’ names, wherever they could be ascertained.
Without the assistance of the Authors themselves it would have been impossible to collect andverify such a mass of information, and my thanks are especially due to the following gentlemen,either for permission to reprint their parodies, or for other literary assistance in the compilation ofthe work: E. B. Anstee, Cuthbert Bede, (Rev. E. Bradley,) F. W. Crawford, T. F. Dillon-Croker,J. G. Dalton (of Boston, U.S.) F. B. Doveton, Jame