Chapter II: Part 24: Page 257 to 259. Thomas Hood

Page 260 to 280. Alfred Tennyson.

NOTES AND CORRECTIONS.

The Parody of “The Village Blacksmith,” on page 9, signed SPHINX,
was written by Mr. W. Sappe, of Forest Hill.

Foot Note, page 112.――Mr. Artemus Ward is here credited with the
advice “Never to prophecy unless you know,” an Aberdeen
correspondent points out that Mr. R. Lowell was the real author, the
phrase occurs in “The Biglow Papers:”――
My gran’ther’s rule was safer’n’t is to crow, _Don’t never
prophesy――onless ye know_.

Page 232. Milton’s Epitaph on W. Shakespeare, the fourth line should
read:――
“Under a star y-pointing pyramid.”

Page 24. Read _Charles Baudelure_, not Beaudelaire.

Page 219. _Wine, a Poem._ The Copy of this old poem in the Editor’s
possession, was published anonymously in 1702. It has been ascribed
to John Gay, who was born in 1688, the poem is certainly a
remarkable production for a youth of twenty-one.

INDEX.

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The authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in small capitals, followed by the Parodies, the authors of which are named wherever possible.

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Albert Grant, M.P. and Leicester Square 2

Home, Sweet Home 3

Trial by Jury, in 1884, a Burlesque Law Report, from
the _Pall Mall Gazette_ 20

The Art of Parody, an Article reprinted from _The
Saturday Review_ of February 14th, 1885 103

Tracy Turnerelli and the Golden Wreath 237 238

NATIONAL ANTHEM OF THE UNITED STATES.――
Orpheus C. Kerr’s report of the Prize Competition
for a National Hymn, with copies of the rejected
compositions ascribed to Longfellow, Everett,
Whittier, Wendell Holmes, Emerson, Cullen
Bryant, Morris, Willis, Aldwick, and Stoddart 22

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Matthew Arnold.

SONNET TO GEORGE CRUIKSHANK 236
_World_――Prize Parody, by V. Amcotts 237
Do. do. by Goymour Cuthbert 237
Do. Competition Parody by Nocturne 237
Do. do. do., by Caraway 237
The subject selected was “Mr. Charles Warner in _Drink_,”
August 20, 1879.

THE FORSAKEN MERMAN 237
_The World_――Prize Parody, by Mrs. Winsloe 238
Do, do. by Miss M. C. Kilburn 238
The subject selected was “Mr. Tracy Turnerelli in the
Provinces, with the Golden Wreath.” September 24, 1879.

The Wreath, from _The World_, July, 1879 238

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John Dryden’s Epigram on Milton.

“THREE POETS, IN THREE DISTANT AGES BORN” 233
Epigram on Orator Henley, Rock, and Dr. John
Hill 233
” on Chatterton, Ireland, Lauder, and
Macpherson 233
” by D. O’Connell on Three Colonels 233
” on Three Pens, advertisement 234
” on Hemans, Hallam, and Hogg 234

Parody Competition in _Truth_, March 27, 1884――
Epigrams on Brandy and Soda 234
” on Grog and Baccy 234
” on Generals Wolseley, Roberts, and
Graham 234
” on _Truth_ 234
” on Beau Nash, Beau D’Orsay, and
Beau Brummel 234
” on Three Champion Batsmen 234
” on the Midge, the Gnat, and the
Mosquito 234
” on the Rose, Shamrock, and Thistle 234
” on Tyndall, Huxley, and Darwin 234
” on a Beau, a Dandy, and a Masher 234
” on Gladstone, Sir S. Northcote, and
Randolph Churchill 234
” on the Members for Eye, Bridport,
and Woodstock 235
” on Lord Salisbury, Sir S. Northcote,
and Lord R. Churchill (several) 235
” on Gladstone, John Bright, and J.
Chamberlain 235
” on Gambetta, Prince Bismarck, and Gladstone 235
” on the Irish Party (several) 235
” on Lord Beaconsfield, Mr. Gladstone, and
Lord R. Churchill 235
” on Whigs, Parnellites, and Tories 233
” on Sir Wilfrid Lawson 235
” on Pitt, Fox, and Gladstone 236
” on Irving, Bancroft, and Toole 236
” on Toole, Sullivan, and Irving 236
” on Irving, Augustus Harris, and Wilson
Barrett 236
” on Mrs. Langtry, Miss Ellen Terry, Miss
Mary Anderson 236

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Bret Harte.

DICKENS IN CAMP 1
Parodies in print, November, 1884 1

PLAIN LANGUAGE FROM TRUTHFUL JAMES――
That Hebrew Ben D――――, 1878 1
Plain Language from Truthful Robert 3
That Greenwich M.P. (on Mr. Gladstone) 244
The Heathen M.P. (on Mr. Disraeli, in 1876) 245
“Ben Diz was his name” 245
On Chang, the Chinese Giant 245

THE AGED STRANGER――
“I was with Grant” (Albert Grant) 1874 2
Home, sweet Home, with variations, by Bret
Harte, 1881 3
His Finger, a Prose Parody 4

THE RETURN OF BELISARIUS――
To “Auld Willie,” September, 1884 3

“JIM”――
On Bret Harte 246

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Thomas Hood.

THE SONG OF THE SHIRT――
The Night “Comp” 4
The Song of the Dirt (Covent Garden in 1884) 4
A Song of the Follies of Fashion, 1880 5
The Overseer’s Lament in Australia, 1853,
by M. P. Stoddart 255
The Song of the Dirt, 1858 256
The Song of the Student, 1854 256
The Song of Exams. (Aberdeen) 257
The Song of the Drink 257
The Song of the Wheel 258
The Song of the Sponge 258
The Song of the Streets 259

I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER――
A Parody of, by Phœbe Carey 4
A Parody of, by Tom Hood, junior 5
What it may come to (the House of Lords) 5
Reminiscences of a Grinder (Aberdeen, 1854) 258
Manchester Musings 259

THE DREAM OF EUGENE ARAM――
The Wanstead Home 5
The Blue-coat Boys’ Ghost 5
A Case of Conscience 259
The Lost Child, or Russell’s Lament on the
Loss of his Reform Bill, 1867 5

“Our heads have met, and if thine smarts,” 258

THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS――
The Age of Sighs, 1868 259
Old Year unfortunate (1885) 259

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

EXCELSIOR――
Higher 6
Diogenes, 1854 6
Upwards, 1873 6
M. Duruof, 1874 7
The Excelsior Climbing Boy, 1875 7
“The Swampy State of Illinois” 8
The Dowager-Duchess at a Drawing Room 8
“’Brellas to mend” 8
On Mr. Disraeli’s first speech in Parliament 17
The Workhouse (Bob) 17
The Griffin 17
The Country Fair (Minnie Mum.) 17
What Roads! W. F. Field 18
Sloper 18
Divitior, 1858 250
Nettle-rash (from St. Bartholomew’s) 251
Young Lambs to sell 251
U-pi-dee, by F. C. Burnand 251
“Loved Arabella,” 1867 252
Ye poor Mahdi, 1884 252
“Ten thousand pounds” 253
(_re_ Maskelyne v. Irving Bishop)

A PSALM OF LIFE――
What the young woman said to the old maid,
by Phœbe Carey, 1854 11
“Tell me not in doleful murmurs,” by
Thomas Thatcher 11
“Please be cheerful,” advice to Novelists 11
A Psalm of Farming 12
A Song of St. Stephen’s, 1882 12
A Psalm of Burial (on Cremation) 12
On Reading a Life and Letters 12
An Imitation, by C. Baudelaire 24
A Christmas Psalm of Life 246
A Psalm for the Trade 246
The Yankee Merchant to his book-keeper 247
The Psalm of Life as exhibited in Christmas
Annuals 247

THE DAY IS DONE――
A parody of, by Phœbe Carey, 1854 12

THE ARROW AND THE SONG 13
The Birds and the Pheasant, 1867 13
The Ex-Premier (Mr. Gladstone), 1877 13
The Arrow and the Hound, 1884 13
The Bubble and the Bullet, by William Sawyer 248

BEWARE!――
“I know a maiden fair to see” (Kate Vaughan) 9
“I know a masher dark to see” 9
“I know a youth who can flirt and flatter” 247
“I know a Barber who in town doth dwell” 248
“I know a maiden with a bag” 248

The Song of the Oyster Land 248

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.
Under Britannia’s spreading Oak, 1884 9
The Low Bohemian, 1878 10
The Village Schoolboy 10
“Beside a Dingy Public-house,” 10
The War Blacksmith, 1866 18
The Lord Chancellor, Finis, 1877 19
The Village Pet. R. E. Blow 21
The City Blackleg 249
“Before a Study of the Nude” 249

THE NORMAN BARON――
The Roman Prelate, by Walter Parke 249

VOICES OF THE NIGHT――
Voices of our Nights, 1861 9

THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS 23
Imitated by C. Baudelaire 24

FLOWERS――
Flowers of Rotten Row in 1858 250

THE BRIDGE――
“I lay in my bed at midnight” 250

THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD――
The Soirée, by Phœbe Carey, 1854 14

EVANGELINE――
Dollarine; a tale of California, 1849 14
The Lost tails of Miletus, by Bret Harte 15
Mabel, the Made-up, Finis 1877 21

THE SONG OF HIAWATHA――
Marks and Remarks on the Royal Academy, 1856 15
The Great Medicine-Man, Punch, 1867 15
Revenge, a Rhythmic Recollection 16
The Song of Big Ben (Truth) 16
The Song of Progress, 1884 16
Le Calumet de Paix, by C. Baudelaire 24
The Great Tichborne Demonstration 253
Pahtahquahong, by Walter Parke 253
The Song of Cetewayo, 1882 254
The Printer’s Hiawatha 254
La Belle Sauvage (Princess Pocahontas), 1870 255

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John Milton.

The Splendid Shilling, in imitation of Milton,
by John Philips, 1700 217
The Crooked Sixpence, by Bramston 219
Wine, a Poem, 1709 219
A Panegyric on Oxford Ale, 1822 221
The Suet Dumpling 222
The Copper Farthing, by Miss Pennington 222
The School boy, by the Rev. Mr. Maurice 224
The Opening of Parliament, (Prize Parody)
by John Foote, 1880 225
Another version, by H. Hamilton, 1880 226
Prae-Existence, a poem in imitation of John
Milton, by J. B., 1714 226
Dr. Bentley’s alterations of Milton 226

L’ALLEGRO, AND IL PENSEROSO――
Whitsuntide, by the Rev. George Huddersford, 1793 227
Christmas do. do. 227
The Garrulous Man, 1776 227
L’Allegro; or Fun, a Parody 227
The Hare Hunter, by Mundy, 1824 229
Fashion, a Paraphrase of L’Allegro, 1814 229
Ode on the Centennial Birthday of Burns, by
Samuel Lover, 1859 231
Football, by the Author of “The Idylls of the
Rink,” 1883 231
A Reading Man, 1824 233
A Seaside Sonnet, after Milton-Oysters 233

MILTON’S EPITAPH ON SHAKESPEARE 232
Two Parodies on the same, from Punch, dated
1856 & 1863 232

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Edgar Allan Poe.

Sketch of his Career 25
The Philosophy of Composition 26

THE RAVEN 27
A Gentle Puff, 1845 28
The Gazelle, by C. C. Cooke, 1845 28
The Whippoorwill, 1845 29
The Vulture, by Robert B. Brough, 1853 30
The Tankard, by Edmund H. Yates, 1855 31
The Parrot, by R. B. Brough, 1856 32
The Cat-Fiend (in prose), 1868 32
The Craven (Napoleon III), 1867 33
The Tailor, by A. Merion, 1872 34
The Shavin’, John F. Mill 35
Chateaux d’Espagne, by H. S. Leigh 35
A Ravin’. The Figaro, 1873 36
Dunraven. Punch, 1881, 1884 36 57
The Dove, a Sentimental Parody. J. W. Scott 37
Lines on the Death of Poe. Sarah J. Bolton 38
My Christmas Pudding 39
On a Fragment of a Five-dollar Bill 40
Nothing More 40
Her Pa’s Dog 40
The Phantom Cat, by F. Field, 1868 41
The Croaker, 1875 42
The Stoker (on Dr. Kenealy), 1875. J. Verey 43
The Raven, from the Liverpool _Porcupine_, 1875 44
A Black Bird that could sing, but wouldn’t sing, 1876 45
Cowgate Philanthrophy, 1876 46
Lines to the Speaker of the House of Commons,
from _Truth_, 1877 47
The Baby, from _Finis_, 1877 48
The Maiden. D. J. M., 1879 49
The Promissory Note, Bayard Taylor 50
The “Ager,” by J. P. Stelle 50
The Chancellor and the Surplus, 1579 51
The Raven, dedicated to the Duke of Somerset 52
The Gold Digger, 1880 53
Quart Pot Creek, by J. Brunton Stephens 54
A Sequel, The Spirits, W. T. Ross 55
The Drama Despondent, 1882 56
A Voice 57
The Ravenous Bull and the Bicycle 58
A Cat-as-Trophy, in prose, 1866 58
The End of “The Raven,” 1884 59
Sequel to the Raven, by R. A. Lavender (a Spirit poem) 59
A Vigil Vision, by H. Bickford 60
Isadore, by Alfred Pike, 1843 61
Plutonian Shore, by J. E. Tuel, 1849 70
The Goblin Goose. _Punch_, 1881 71
The College Craven. P. G. S., 1884 71
The (C)raven Student 72
Le Corbeau, by S. Mallarmé, 1875 72
Vox Corvi, 1694 73
Poe-tical Forgeries 73
The Fire Fiend, September, 1864, by Charles
D. Gardette 73
Golgotha, by Charles D. Gardette 75
The Raven, in Dublin 92
The Raven, said to have been translated by Poe
from a Persian Poem 92
Sequel to the Raven, a Spiritual Poem by R.
A. Lavender 93
A Grand Poem, by Lizzie Doten, 1872 94
Farewell to Earth, by Lizzie Doten 95
The Vulture, by Somers Bellamy, 1885 136

SPIRITUAL POEMS, in imitation of Poe, by Mrs. Lydia
Tenney 93
The Raven, by R. Allston Lavender 93
A Grand Poem, by Lizzie Doten 94
The Kingdom, ” ” 94
Farewell to Earth ” ” 95
Improvisations from the Spirit, by Dr. J. J.
Garth Wilkinson, 1857 95

POT-POURRI, reprinted from the scarce New York
Edition of 1875――
The Ruined Palace. (The Haunted Palace) 96
Dream-Mere. (Dreamland) 96
Israfiddlestrings. (Israfel) 97
The Ghouls in the Belfry. (The Bells) 98
Hullaloo. (Ulalume) 99
To Any. (For Annie) 100
Hannibal Leigh. (Annabel Lee) 101
Raving. (The Raven) 102
The Monster Maggot. (The Conqueror Worm) 102
Poetic Fragments 103
Under-Lines 103

THE BELLS 75
The Swells, by R. B. Brough, 1857 76
The Ball-Room Belles. Fun. 1865 77
Pills, by Damer Cape, 1866 77
The Hells. The Tomahawk, 1867 78
Christmas Fancies. Fun, 1867 79
The Bells 79
The Bills, by Thomas Hood, the younger, 1870 80
The Flute 81
The Chimes done in Rhymes, an American parody, 1871 81
The Bills, from the Light Green, 1872 82
The Bells, by an overworked Waiter, 1875 82
The Girls 83
The Bills, by a Mercantile Poet, 1875 83
The Belles, Benjamin D――――, 1876 83
The Bills. The Corkscrew Papers, 1876 84
The Swells. Worthy a Crown? 85
The Bells. Fiz, 1878 85
The Bills. Funny Folks, 1879 86
The Hose. Puck, 1879 87
The Bills. Punch, 1879 87
Bills. Truth, 1880 88
The Bells, Mr. Irving in, 1883 89
The Voice of the Bells, by W. A. Eaton 89
The Bills. Detroit Free Press 89
“O! The Hammers,” by William Allan, 1883 90
Reminiscences of Summer, 1883 90
That Amateur Flute, an American Parody 90
The Office Boy’s Mother in America 91

ISRAFEL――
Bisakel, by J. E. Dalton, 1880 91
The Steed of Fire ” ” 91

ANNABEL LEE 61
Samuel Brown, by Phœbe Carey, 1854 61
The Cannibal Flea, by Tom Hood, the younger 62
The L. C. D. and the L. S. D. by Joseph Verey 62
St. Rose of Lima, by Walter Parke, 1882 63
Beautiful B―――― (Wilson Barrett), J. W. G. W. 63
Annabel Lee, from “Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke,”
by Stanley Huntley 64

ULALUME 64
Paralune. Punch, 1881 64
The Willows, by Bret Harte 65
What is in a Name, by Thomas Hood, junior 65
You’ll Resume. Punch, 1882 66
Hope; An Allegory, by John H. Ingram 66
Covent Garden. Fun, 1867 68
The Kingdom, a Spirit poem, by Lizzie Doten 94

LENORE
The Supper of the Four, by A. Merion, 1872 67

FOR ANNIE 68
Tristan and Isolde, by J. W. G. W. 68

LIGIEA――
Hygiea. Punch, 1880 69
The Demon of the Doldrums 69

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William Shakespeare.

A PROLOGUE, in imitation of Othello’s address to
the Senate 144
Correspondence in _The Daily News_, 1883, concerning
the Gaiety burlesques of _The Tempest_, and
_Hamlet_, including letters from Mr. Moy Thomas,
Mr. W. Kennedy, Mr. John Hollingshead, and
Mr. F. C. Burnand 144
The Daily News on Shakespearian Burlesques,
October 25, 1884 205
Dreary Song for Dreary Summer, by Shirley Brooks,
1860 205
Shakespoke’s Epigram, by J. G. Dalton 205
The Shakespeare Monument Committee, 1823 205
The “New Shakspere Society,” and Mr. F. J. Furnivall 162

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THE TEMPEST――

The Tempest; or, the Enchanted Isle, by Sir W. Davenant
and John Dryden 146
The Enchanted Isle; or, Raising the Wind, by R. B.
and W. Brough, produced at the Adelphi Theatre,
1848, with the cast 203
Ariel, by F. C. Burnand, produced at the Gaiety
Theatre, October, 1883, with the cast 204

WHERE THE BEE SUCKS 204
Who would be Great Grand Lord High? By J. R. Planché 204

“OUR REVELS NOW ARE ENDED” 204
“Those Golden pallaces,” by Lord Stirling 204
“Our Parodies are ended” 204

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MEASURE FOR MEASURE――

“TAKE, O, TAKE THOSE LIPS AWAY” 188
Take, O, take that bill away 188
Take, O, take the haunch away, by W. H. Ireland, 1803 188
Take, O, take that wreath away (to Mr. Tracy
Turnerelli) 189
I bought thee late a golden wreath (after Ben
Jonson) 189
Take, O, take Parnell away, 1882 189

AY, BUT TO DIE, AND GO WE KNOW NOT WHERE 244
Ay, but to love, and not be loved again 244
Oh, but to fade, and live we know not where,
by Phœbe Carey 169

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING――

“SIGH NO MORE, LADIES” 202
Rail no more, Tories, 1823 202
Sigh no more, Dealers, 1867 203

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A MIDSUMMER-NIGHT’S DREAM――

Act I. A Midsummer Nightmare, 1885 197