Poems by Dickens and Thackeray
Verses from the Pen of Two of England’s Most Celebrated
Novelists.
With the notable exception of Sir Walter Scott, no writer of English novels has attained any marked distinction as a poet. But like men engaged in hundreds of other occupations, celebrated novelists have at times succumbed to the allurements of the muse, and have offered some of their thoughts to the world through the medium of verse. Among these were Dickens and Thackeray.
“The Ivy Green,” by Dickens, lends grace to the “Pickwick Papers,” while Thackeray’s “The Church Porch” plays an interesting part in the novel “Pendennis.”