A Parody Anthology

About this eBook

Compiler

Wells, Carolyn, 1862-1942

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Parodies

Category

Text

eBook-No.

46700

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46700

Release Date

August 27, 2014

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.A Parody Anthology
2. 2.NOTE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION PARODY AS A FINE ART
5. 5.AFTER OMAR KHAYYAM — THE GOLFER'S RUBAIYAT — AN OMAR FOR LADIES [A] — FOOTNOTE: — THE MODERN RUBAIYAT — LINES WRITTEN (“BY REQUEST") FOR A DINNER OF THE OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB — THE BABY'S OMAR
6. 6.AFTER CHAUCER — YE CLERKE OF YE WETHERE
7. 7.AFTER SPENSER — A PORTRAIT
8. 8.AFTER SHAKESPEARE — THE BACHELOR'S SOLILOQUY — POKER — TOOTHACHE — A DREARY SONG — TO THE STALL-HOLDERS AT A FANCY FAIR — SONG — THE WHIST-PLAYER'S SOLILOQUY
9. 9.AFTER WITHER — ANSWER TO MASTER WITHERS SONG, “SHALL I, WASTING IN DESPAIR?"
10. 10.AFTER HERRICK — SONG — TO JULIA UNDER LOCK AND KEY
11. 11.AFTER NURSERY RHYMES — AN IDYLL OF PHATTE AND LEENE — NURSERY SONG IN PIDGIN ENGLISH — THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT — BOSTON NURSERY RHYMES — RHYME FOR A GEOLOGICAL BABY — RHYME FOR ASTRONOMICAL BABY — RHYME FOR BOTANICAL BABY — RHYME FOR A CHEMICAL BABY — A SONG OF A HEART — THE DOMICILE OF JOHN — MARY AND THE LAMB
12. 12.AFTER WALLER — THE AESTHETE TO THE ROSE
13. 13.AFTER DRYDEN — THREE BLESSINGS — OYSTER-CRABS
14. 14.AFTER DR. WATTS — THE VOICE OF THE LOBSTER — THE CROCODILE
15. 15.AFTER GOLDSMITH — WHEN LOVELY WOMAN
16. 16.AFTER BURNS — GAELIC SPEECH; OR, “AULD LANG SYNE" DONE UP IN TARTAN — MY FOE — RIGID BODY SINGS
17. 17.AFTER CATHERINE FANSHAWE — COCKNEY ENIGMA ON THE LETTER H
18. 18.AFTER WORDSWORTH — ON WORDSWORTH — JACOB — FRAGMENT IN IMITATION OF WORDSWORTH — JANE SMITH — ONLY SEVEN — LUCY LAKE
19. 19.AFTER SIR WALTER SCOTT — YOUNG LOCHINVAR
20. 20.AFTER COLERIDGE — THE ANCIENT MARINER — STRIKING
21. 21.AFTER SOUTHEY — THE OLD MAN'S COLD AND HOW HE GOT IT — FATHER WILLIAM — LADY JANE
22. 22.AFTER CAMPBELL — THE NEW ARRIVAL — JOHN THOMPSON'S DAUGHTER
23. 23.AFTER THOMAS MOORE — THE LAST CIGAR — 'TWAS EVER THUS — "THERE'S A BOWER OF BEAN-VINES" — DISASTER — SARAH'S HALLS — 'TWAS EVER THUS
24. 24.AFTER JANE TAYLOR — THE BAT
25. 25.AFTER BARRY CORNWALL — THE TEA
26. 26.AFTER BYRON — THE ROUT OF BELGRAVIA — A GRIEVANCE
27. 27.AFTER CHARLES WOLFE — THE BURIAL OF THE BACHELOR — NOT A SOU HAD HE GOT — THE MARRIAGE OF SIR JOHN SMITH
28. 28.AFTER MRS. HEMANS — THE THYROID GLAND
29. 29.AFTER KEATS — I. — II. — III. — IV.
30. 30.AFTER HEINE — IMITATION — COMMONPLACES
31. 31.AFTER HOOD — SONG OF THE SHEET THE DRIPPING SHEET — I REMEMBER, I REMEMBER
32. 32.AFTER ALFRED BUNN — A YULE-TIDE PARODY — SELF-EVIDENT
33. 33.AFTER LORD MACAULAY — THE LAUREATE'S TOURNEY — FYTTE THE FIRST — FYTTE THE SECOND
34. 34.AFTER EMERSON — MUTTON
35. 35.AFTER MARY HOWITT — THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE
36. 36.AFTER MRS. BROWNING — IN THE GLOAMING — GWENDOLINE
37. 37.AFTER LONGFELLOW — THE MODERN HIAWATHA — HIGHER — TOPSIDE GALAH! — EXCELSIOR — "THE DAY IS DONE" — A PSALM OF LIFE — HOW OFTEN — DESOLATION — THE BIRDS AND THE PHEASANT
38. 38.AFTER WHITTIER — HIRAM HOVER
39. 39.AFTER MRS. NORTON — THE HORSE AND HIS MASTER — THE NEW VERSION
40. 40.AFTER POE — WHAT TROUBLED POE'S RAVEN — THE AMATEUR FLUTE — SAMUEL BROWN — THE PROMISSORY NOTE — THE CANNIBAL FLEA — ANNABEL LEE — THE BELLS — THE GOBLIN GOOSE
41. 41.AFTER LORD HOUGHTON — LOVE AND SCIENCE
42. 42.AFTER TENNYSON — THE BATHER'S DIRGE — LITTLE MISS MUFFET — THE MUSICAL PITCH — TO AN IMPORTUNATE HOST — THE VILLAGE CHOIR — THE BITER BIT — THE LAUREATE — THE LAY OF THE LOVELORN — IN IMMEMORIAM — SIR EGGNOGG — GODIVA — A LAUREATE'S LOG — MONDAY — TUESDAY — WEDNESDAY — THURSDAY — FRIDAY — SATURDAY — SUNDAY — THE RECOGNITION — THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL — TIMBUCTOO.—PART I.
43. 43.AFTER TUPPER — OF FRIENDSHIP — OF READING
44. 44.AFTER THACKERAY — THE WILLOW-TREE
45. 45.AFTER CHARLES DICKENS — MAN'S PLACE IN NATURE
46. 46.AFTER ROBERT BROWNING — HOME TRUTHS FROM ABROAD — I — II — AFTER BROWNING — THE COCK AND THE BULL — A STACCATO TO O LE LUPE — BY THE SEA — ANGELO ORDERS HIS DINNER — THE FLIGHT OF THE BUCKET — THE JAM-POT — IMITATION OF ROBERT BROWNING — THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER — UP THE SPOUT — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII. — IX. — X. — XI. — XII. — XIII.
47. 47.AFTER WHITMAN — AN AMERICAN, ONE OF THE ROUGHS, A KOSMOS — CAMERADOS — IMITATION OF WALT WHITMAN — IMITATION OF WALT WHITMAN — THE POET AND THE WOODLOUSE
48. 48.AFTER CHARLES KINGSLEY — THREE LITTLE FISHERS — THE THREE POETS
49. 49.AFTER MRS. R. H. STODDARD — THE NETTLE
50. 50.AFTER BAYARD TAYLOR — HADRAMAUT
51. 51.AFTER WILLIAM MORRIS — ESTUNT THE GRIFF
52. 52.AFTER ALFRED AUSTIN — AN ODE
53. 53.AFTER W. S. GILBERT — ODE TO A LONDON FOG — PRESIDENT GARFIELD — PROPINQUITY NEEDED
54. 54.AFTER R. H. STODDARD — THE CANTELOPE
55. 55.AFTER A. A. PROCTOR — THE LOST VOICE — THE LOST APE — THE LOST WORD
56. 56.AFTER GEORGE MEREDITH — AT THE SIGN OF THE COCK — I — II — III — IV — V
57. 57.AFTER DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI — A CHRISTMAS WAIL — BALLAD — Part II — CIMABUELLA — THE POSTER GIRL
58. 58.AFTER JEAN INGELOW — LOVERS, AND A REFLECTION — THE SHRIMP-GATHERERS
59. 59.AFTER CHRISTINA ROSSETTI — REMEMBER
60. 60.AFTER LEWIS CARROLL — WAGGAWOCKY — THE VULTURE AND THE HUSBANDMAN
61. 61.AFTER A. C. SWINBURNE — GILLIAN — ATALANTA IN CAMDEN-TOWN — THE MANLET — IF! — THE MAID OF THE MEERSCHAUM — QUAERITUR — A MELTON MOWBRAY PORK-PIE — FOAM AND FANGS — A SONG OF RENUNCIATION — NEPHELIDIA — THE LAY OF MACARONI
62. 62.AFTER BRET HARTE — THE HEATHEN PASS-EE — DE TEA FABULA
63. 63.AFTER AUSTIN DOBSON — THE PRODIGALS — ENVOI:
64. 64.AFTER ANDREW LANG — BO-PEEP
65. 65.AFTER W. E. HENLEY — IMITATION
66. 66.AFTER R. L. STEVENSON — BED DURING EXAMS
67. 67.AFTER OSCAR WILDE — MORE IMPRESSIONS — NURSERY RHYMES À LA MODE — POSTSCRIPT — A MAUDLE-IN BALLAD — QUITE THE CHEESE
68. 68.AFTER WILLIAM WATSON — THE THREE MICE
69. 69.AFTER KIPLING — FUZZY WUZZY LEAVES US — A BALLAD — JACK AND JILL — THE LEGEND OF REALISM
70. 70.AFTER STEPHEN PHILLIPS — LITTLE JACK HORNER
71. 71.AFTER FIONA McLEOD, W. B. YEATS, AND OTHERS — THE CULT OF THE CELTIC
72. 72.AFTER VARIOUS WRITERS OF VERS DE SOCIÉTÉ — BEHOLD THE DEEDS! — I — II — III — IV — V — ENVOY — CULTURE IN THE SLUMS — A BALLADE OF BALLADE-MONGERS — ENVOY
73. 73.AFTER VARIOUS POPULAR SONGS — BEAUTIFUL SNOW — THE NEWEST THING IN CHRISTMAS CAROLS — THE TALE OF LORD LOVELL — "SONGS WITHOUT WORDS" — THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN — TURTLE SOUP — SOME DAY — IF I SHOULD DIE TO-NIGHT — A LOVE SONG — OLD FASHIONED FUN
74. 74.THEMES WITH VARIATIONS — HOME SWEET HOME WITH VARIATIONS — Fantasia — I — II — III — IV — V — VI
75. 75.MODERN VERSIFICATION ON ANCIENT THEMES — GOOSE À LA MODE — THREE CHILDREN SLIDING — JACK AND JILL — JACK AND JILL — THE REJECTED "NATIONAL HYMNS" — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — A THEME WITH VARIATIONS — THEME — SONG — THE POETS AT TEA — THE POETS AT A HOUSE-PARTY — The Limerick — AN OLD SONG BY NEW SINGERS — TRIOLET — RONDEAU — VILLANELLE
76. 76.INDEX OF TITLES
77. 77.INDEX OF AUTHORS
78. 78.INDEX OF AUTHORS PARODIED

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