F. G. Kitton collected the verse scattered through Dickens’s career, with notes on where each piece first appeared. Here are the songs of his 1836 comic opera The Village Coquettes, prologues and occasional pieces, and political squibs such as the new version of The Fine Old English Gentleman, written during the Tory government of Sir Robert Peel.
A small, surprising volume showing the novelist’s lighter rhyming side. Download the free EPUB.