Romantic Parodies, 1797-1831

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David A. Kent, D. R. Ewen
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1992 - 409 Seiten
This is the first collection of literary parodies, both poetry and prose, written during the English Romantic period. Many anthologies of literary parody have been published during the past century, but no previous selection has concentrated so intensively on a single period in English literary history, and no period in that history was more remarkable for the quantity and diversity of its parody. There was no Romantic writer untouched by parody, either as subject or as author, or even occasionally as both. Most parodies were intended to discredit the Romantics not only as poets but as individuals, and to disarm the threat they were seen as posing to establish literary and social norms. Because it focuses on the "swarm of imitative writers" about whom Robert Southey complained in an 1819 letter to Walter Savage Landor, this collection throws light on a large and often overlooked body of work whose authors had much more serious purposes than mere ridicule or amusement. Romantic parody situates itself between the eighteenth-century craft of burlesque and the nonsense verse that Victorian parody often became. This anthology demonstrates that parody is concerned with power: that it expresses ideological conflict, dramatizing clashes of ideas, styles, and values between different generations of writers, different classes and social groups, and even between writers of the same generation and class. Parody is not an inherently conservative mode; politically, it serves the whole range of opinion from extreme left to extreme right. While several of the parodies are playful - a few even affectionate - most angrily testify to the political, social, and aesthetic divisions embittering the times. Some parodies have aged more gracefully than others. But all contribute to a more vivid understanding of the era and to the reception accorded the most important Romantic writers. The venom and alarm of the response those writers provoked may surprise anyone who takes it for granted that the Romantics easily made their way into the mainstream of English literature. This volume reprints parodies by the major Romantics (including Coleridge, Keats, Byron, and Shelley) as well as by minor, obscure, and anonymous contemporaries. Several longer, better-known texts are given in their entirety, e.g., Peter Bell, Peter Bell III, and The Vision of Judgment, and there are also examples from distinguished collections such as Rejected Addresses, The Poetic Mirror, and Warreniana. Numerous shorter works are taken from periodicals of the time (such as Blackwood's or The Satirist), and many of these are reprinted for the first time since their initial publication. The foreword by Linda Hutcheon, "Parody and Romantic Ideology," examines the theoretical implications of Romantic parodies. The introduction, headnotes, and annotations by the editors place the parodies in their historical, social, and literary contexts.

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John Hamilton Reynolds The Dead Asses 1819
203
Percy Bysshe Shelley Peter Bell The Third 1819
213
William Maginn Don Juan Unread 1819
239
29 David Carey The Water Melon 1820
242
William Maginn and Others from Luctus on the Death of Sir Daniel Donnelly Late Champion of Ireland 1820
244
Anonymous The NoseDrop A Physiological Ballad 1821
249
William Hone A New Vision 1821
256
Eyre Evans Crowe Characters of Living Authors By Themselves 1821
261

George Manners The Bards of the Lake 1809
62
Anonymous Lines originally intended to have been inserted in the last Edition of Wordsworths Poems 1811
68
Anonymous Review Extraordinary 1812
70
James and Horace Smith from Rejected Addresses 1812
73
Francis Hodgson from Leaves of Laurel 1813
94
Eaton Stannard Barrett from The Heroine or Adventures of Cherubina 1813
101
Anonymous The Universal Believer 1815
112
James Hogg from The Poetic Mirror 1816
114
William Hone from his Parodies on The Book of Common Prayer 1817
139
John Keats The Gothic Looks Solemn 1817
147
Anonymous The Old Tolbooth 1818
148
Thomas Love Peacock from Nightmare Abbey 1818
156
D M Moir The Rime of the Auncient Waggonere 1819
163
Anonymous Pleasant Walks A Cockney Pastoral 1819
169
John Hamilton Reynolds Peter Bell 1819
173
D M Moir Christabel Part Third 1819
185
John Wilson Lockhart from Benjamin the Waggoner 1819
194
Lord Byron The Vision of Judgment 1821
268
Anonymous To the Veiled Magician 1822
297
Anonymous Lyrical Ballad 1822
299
Thomas Colley Grattan Confessions of an English Glutton 1823
302
Caroline Bowles Southey Letter from a Washerwoman and Fragments 1823
313
Catherine Maria Fanshawe Fragment in Imitation of Wordsworth nd
325
William Hay Forbes Cockney Contributions for the First of April 1824
327
William Frederick Deacon from Warreniana 1824
338
Thomas Hood Ode to Mr Graham from Odes and Addresses to Great People 1825
354
Thomas Love Peacock Proemium of an Epic from Paper Money Lyrics 1825
361
Hartley Coleridge He Lived Amidst Th Untrodden Ways 1827
364
James Hogg Ode to a Highland Bee 1829
365
Anonymous A Driver of a Rattling Cab 1831
368
Notes
370
Selected Bibliography
403
Index
408
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Seite 60 - And if I give thee honour due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Seite 59 - When, in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end ;Then lies him down the lubber fiend. And, stretch'd out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Seite 59 - And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Seite 27 - Knives and Scissors to grind, O'! "Tell me, Knife-grinder, how came you to grind knives? Did some rich man tyrannically use you? Was it the squire? or parson of the parish? Or the attorney? "Was it the squire, for killing of his game, or Covetous parson, for his tithes distraining? Or roguish lawyer, made you lose your little All in a lawsuit? "(Have you not read the Rights of Man, by Tom Paine?) Drops of compassion tremble on my eyelids, Ready to fall, as soon as you have told your Pitiful story.
Seite 58 - While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack or the barn door Stoutly struts his dames before...
Seite 60 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Seite 55 - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the night-raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low-browed rocks As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Seite 143 - Yes, verily, and by GOD'S help so I will. And I heartily thank our heavenly Father that he hath called me to this state of salvation, through JESUS CHRIST, our Saviour. And I pray unto GOD to give me His grace, that I may continue in the same unto my life's end.
Seite 60 - ... voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Seite 26 - Needy Knife-grinder! whither are you going? Rough is the road, your Wheel is out of order — Bleak blows the blast; — your hat has got a hole in't, So have your breeches! 'Weary Knife-grinder! little think the proud ones, Who in their coaches roll along the turnpikeroad, what hard work 'tis crying all day "Knives and "Scissors to grind O!

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