PARODIES
OF THE WORKS OF
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS,
COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY
WALTER HAMILTON,
Fellow of the Royal Geographical and Royal Historical Societies;
Author of “A History of National Anthems and Patriotic Songs,” “A Memoir of George Cruikshank”
“The Poets Laureate of England,” “The Æsthetic Movement in England,” etc.
VOLUME VI.
CONTAINING PARODIES OF
A. C. Swinburne. G. R. Sims. Robert Browning.
F. Locker-Lampson. Austin Dobson. Dante G. Rossetti.
OSCAR WILDE. J. DRYDEN. A. POPE. MARTIN F. TUPPER.
Ballades, Rondeaus, Villanelles, Triolets.
NURSERY RHYMES AND CHILDREN’S SONGS.
PARODIES AND POEMS IN PRAISE OF TOBACCO.
PROSE PARODIES.
SLANG, FLASH, AND CANT SONGS.
RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL PARODIES.
Bibliography of Parody, and Dramatic Burlesques
REEVES & TURNER, 196, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.
1889.
PREFACE.
t is now a little more than six years since this publication was commenced, andthe completion of the Sixth Volume enables me to say that nearly every Parodyof literary merit, or importance, has been mentioned in its pages, whilst somethousands of the best have been given in full.
To form such a collection required not only an intimate knowledge of EnglishPoetical Literature, but involved the reference to many very rare and scarce books,English, American, and Colonial.
I beg to offer my sincere thanks to the Authors who kindly permitted theircopyright poems to be inserted in this volume, particularly to F. Locker-Lampson, Esq.,and G. R. Sims, Esq., as well as to the following gentlemen, for copies of Parodies andother information they have afforded—Messrs. Cuthbert Bede, G. H. Brierley, of Cardif