ABSTRACT

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.

chapter

Introduction

part |10 pages

Probationary Odes for the Laureateship, 1785

part |28 pages

Bozzy and Piozzi, or, the British Biographers, A Town Eclogue, 1786

part |7 pages

The Baviad, 1791

chapter |5 pages

Introductory Note

part |6 pages

Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers, 1797 1

part |5 pages

The Amatory Poems of Abel Shufflebottom, 1799

part |12 pages

The Port Folio, 1804 1

chapter |3 pages

Introductory Note

part |28 pages

Rejected Addresses, 1812

part |8 pages

The Lady of the Wreck, 1812

part |4 pages

Verses supposed to be written by the Editor of the Examiner, whilst in Prison, Attrib. Theodore Hook, n. d.

part |28 pages

The Poetic Mirror, 1816

part |24 pages

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

part |13 pages

Beppo, 1818

chapter |3 pages

Introductory Note

chapter |10 pages

From Beppo, Lord Byron (1818)

part |4 pages

There is a fever of the spirit, 1818

part |18 pages

Peter Bell. A Lyrical Ballad, 1819

part |14 pages

Peter Bell the Third, 1819

part |62 pages

Benjamin the Waggoner, a Ryghte merrie and conceitede Tale in Verse. A Fragment, 1819

part |22 pages

The Political House that Jack Built, 1819

chapter |2 pages

Introductory Note

part |6 pages

Don Juan Unread, 1819

chapter |2 pages

Introductory Note

part |4 pages

Evening, 1820

chapter |2 pages

Introductory Note

chapter |2 pages

Evening, Anon. (1820)

part |10 pages

The Nose-Drop: A Physiological Ballad, 1821

part |6 pages

Elegy on my Tom Cat, 1821

part |5 pages

Paper Money Lyrics, 1825

part |10 pages

Odes and Addresses to Great People, 1825

part |9 pages

The London University or, Stinkomalee Triumphans, 1828

part |3 pages

Cabbages, n.d.

part |3 pages

Fragment in imitation of Wordsworth, n.d.

part |7 pages

The Fudges in England, 1835

part |8 pages

On Reading Wordsworth’s ‘Excursion’, n.d. 1

part |3 pages

Fish have their Times to Bite, 1861

part |5 pages

The Ancient Philosopher, 1868

part |6 pages

The Power of Science, 1880