ABSTRACT
The point about Southey’s metres has already been adequately made, but a riposte in the Morning Chronicle prompts reiteration. The Chronicle’s poem, called ‘The Collector and the Householder’, was an inversion of ‘The Knife Grinder’, protesting about Pitt’s proposed increases in Assessed Taxes: Greedy Collector, whither are you going, Thus with your ink-horn in your buttonhole, and Ledger so snugly underneath your coat? say, Greedy Collector.
