Parodies of the Romantic Age Vol 2: Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin and Other Parodic Writings

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.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Introductory note -- From Probationary Odes for the Laureateship -- George Ellis -- Introductory note -- Bozzy and Piozzi, or, the British Biographers, A Town Eclogue (1786), John Wolcot (Teter Pindar') -- Introductory note -- From The Baviad (1791), William Gifford -- Introductory note -- Sonnets Attempted in the Manner of Contemporary Writers' (1797), Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Introductory note -- From 'The Amatory Poems of Abel Shuffiebottom' (1799), Robert Sou they -- Introductory note -- From The Port Folio (1804), Robert Rose -- Introductory note -- From Rejected Addresses, or the New Theatrum Poetarum (1812), James and Horace Smith -- Introductory note -- From The Lady of the Wreck' (1812), George Colman the Younger -- Introductory note -- Verses supposed to be written by the Editor of the Examiner, whilst in Prison' (n. d.), Attrib. Theodore Hook -- Introductory note -- From The Poetic Mirror; or The Living Bards of Britain (1816), James Hogg -- Introductory note -- From 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), John Hookham Frere -- Introductory note -- From Beppo (1818), Lord Byron -- Introductory note -- There is a fever of the spirit' (1818), Thomas Love Peacock -- Introductory note -- Peter Bell. A Lyrical Ballad (1819), John Hamilton Reynolds -- Introductory note -- From Peter Bell the Third (1819), Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Introductory note -- Benjamin the Waggoner, a Ryghte merrie and conceitede Tale in Verse. A Fragment (1819), Anon. -- Introductory note -- The Political House that Jack Built (1819), William Hone -- Introductory note -- Don Juan Unread' (1819), William Maginn -- Introductory note -- Evening' (1820), Anon. -- Introductory note -- The Nose-Drop: A Physiological Ballad' (1821), Anon. -- Introductory note -- Elegy on my Tom Cat' (1821), William Maginn -- Introductory note -- From Paper Money Lyrics (1825), Thomas Love Peacock -- Introductory note -- From Odes and Addresses to Great People (1825), Thomas Hood -- Introductory note -- The London University or, Stinkomalee Triumphans' (1828), Richard Harris Barham -- Introductory note -- Cabbages' (n. d.), William Makepeace Thackeray -- Introductory note -- Fragment in imitation of Wordsworth' (n. d.), Catherine Fanshawe -- Introductory note -- From The Fudges in England (1835), Thomas Moore -- Introductory note -- On Reading Wordsworth's "Excursion"' (n.d.), Samuel Smith -- Introductory note -- Fish have their Times to Bite' (1861), Anon. -- Introductory note -- The Ancient Philosopher. By a Literary Medium' (1868), William Prowse -- Introductory note -- The Power of Science' (1880), J. Brunton Stephens -- Silent Corrections -- Notes.