Alphabetical List of Authors, With Their Parodies or Imitations

Aytoun, William Edmondstoune (1813–1865):		PAGE
The Massacre of the Macpherson	‘From the Gaelic’	250
A Midnight Meditation	Lytton	252
The Husband’s Petition	Aytoun	254
Barham, Richard Harris (‘Thomas Ingoldsby’) (1788–1845):
Margate	Byron	176
‘Not a sous had he got’	Wolfe	176
The Demolished Farce	Bayly	178
‘Bede, Cuthbert.’ See Bradley.
Bradley, Edward (‘Cuthbert Bede’) (1827–1889):
On a Toasted Muffin	Lytton	272
In Immemoriam	Tennyson	273
Brooks, Charles William Shirley (1816–1874):
To my Five New Kittens	Tupper	256
For a’ that and a’ that	Burns	256
Brough, Robert Barnabas (1828–1860):
I’m a Shrimp! Old Song:	‘I’m Afloat’	289
Bunner, Henry Cuyler (1855–1896):
Home, Sweet Home, with Variations	Swinburne	365
″ ″ ″ ″	Bret Harte	367
″ ″ ″ ″	Austin Dobson	368
″ ″ ″ ″	Goldsmith	369
″ ″ ″ ″	Pope	369
″ ″ ″ ″	Walt Whitman	370
Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788–1824):
To Mr. Murray	Cowper	173
Parenthetical Address by Dr. Plagiary	Busby	174
Calverley, Charles Stuart (1831–1884):
Ode to Tobacco	Longfellow	292
Beer	Byron	293
Wanderers	Tennyson	296
Proverbial Philosophy	Tupper	298
The Cock and the Bull	Browning	301
Lovers, and a Reflection	J. Ingelow	304
The Auld Wife	J. Ingelow	306
Canning, George (1770–1827) and George Ellis (1753–1815):
Song by Rogero	German Tragedy	107
Canning, George, and John Hookham Frere (1769–1846):
Inscription	Southey	93
The Soldier’s Friend	Southey	93
The Soldier’s Wife	Southey (and Coleridge)	94
The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder	Southey	95
See Frere, Canning, and Ellis.
‘Carroll, Lewis.’ See Dodgson.
Cary, Phœbe (1824–1871):
‘The Day is done’	Longfellow	270
‘That very time I saw’	Shakespeare	271
‘When lovely Woman’	Goldsmith	271
Coleridge, Hartley (1796–1849):
He lived amidst th’ untrodden ways	Wordsworth	218
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834):
Sonnets attempted in the manner of contemporary writers
(Coleridge, Lamb, and Charles Lloyd):
1. ‘Pensive at Eve’		142
2. To Simplicity		142
3. On a Ruined House in a Romantic Country		143
Collins, Mortimer (1827–1876):
If	Swinburne	286
Salad:
‘O cool in the summer is salad’	Swinburne	287
‘Waitress, with eyes so marvellous black’	R. Browning	287
‘King Arthur, growing very tired indeed’	Tennyson	287
Crabbe, George (1754–1832):
Inebriety	Pope	86
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (‘Lewis Carroll’) (1832–1898):
‘How doth the little Crocodile’	Watts	308
‘’Tis the voice of the Lobster’	Watts	308
‘Twinkle, twinkle, little Bat’	Jane Taylor	308
‘You are old, Father William’	Southey	309
Hiawatha’s Photographing	Longfellow	310
The Three Voices	Tennyson	314
Beautiful Soup	Uncertain	322
Ellis, George (1753–1815):
Elegy written in a College Library	Gray	81
See Frere, Canning, and Ellis.
Fanshawe, Catherine Maria (1765–1834):
Ode	Gray	87
Fragment	Wordsworth	89
Frere, John Hookham (1769–1846):
A Fable	Dryden	92
The Course of Time	Pollok	92
Frere, John Hookham, George Canning, and George Ellis:
The Loves of the Triangles	E. Darwin	97
See Canning and Frere.
Gilfillan, Robert (1798–1850):
Blue Bonnets over the Border	Scott	228
Harte, Francis Bret (1839–1902):
A Geological Madrigal	Shenstone	342
Mrs. Judge Jenkins	Whittier	343
The Willows	Poe	344
Hilton, Arthur Clement (1851–1877):
The Vulture and the Husbandman	‘Lewis Carroll’	358
The Heathen Pass-ee	Bret Harte	360
Octopus	Swinburne	363
Hogg, James (1770–1835):
Walsingham’s song from ‘Wat o’ the Cleuch’	Scott	109
The Flying Tailor	Wordsworth	110
The Cherub	Coleridge	118
Isabelle	Coleridge	120
The Curse of the Laureate	Southey	123
The Gude Greye Katt	Hogg	129
Hood, Thomas (1799–1845):
The Irish Schoolmaster	Spenser	229
Huggins and Duggins	Pope	237
Sea Song	Dibdin	239
‘We met—’twas in a Crowd’	T. H. Bayly	240
Those Evening Bells	Moore	241
The Water Peri’s Song	Moore	241
Hood, Thomas—the Younger (1835–1874):
Ravings by E., a Poe-t	Poe	323
In Memoriam Technicam	Tennyson	324
The Wedding	‘Owen Meredith’	324
Poets and Linnets	R. Browning	325
‘Ingoldsby, Thomas.’ See Barham.
Keats, John (1795–1821):
Stanzas on Charles Armitage Brown	Spenser	216
On Oxford	Wordsworth	217
‘Kerr, Orpheus C.’ See Newell.
Lamb, Charles (1775–1834):
Epicedium	Drayton	151
Hypochondriacus	Burton	153
Nonsense Verses	Lamb	154
Lang, Andrew (1844–1912):
‘Oh, no, we never mention her’	Rossetti	353
Ballade of Cricket	Swinburne	354
Brahma	Emerson	355
The Palace of Bric-à-Brac	Swinburne	355
‘Gaily the Troubadour’	W. Morris	356
Leigh, Henry Sambrooke (1837–1883):
Only Seven	Wordsworth	329
Chateaux d’Espagne	Poe	330
Locker-Lampson, Frederick (1821–1895):
Unfortunate Miss Bailey	Tennyson	268
Maginn, William (1793–1842):
The Rime of the Auncient Waggonere	Coleridge	208
To a Bottle of Old Port	Moore	213
The Last Lamp of the Alley	Moore	214
The Galiongee	Byron	214
Martin, Sir Theodore (1816–1909):
The Lay of the Lovelorn	Tennyson	258
Moore, Thomas (1779–1852):
The Numbering of the Clergy	Sir C. H. Williams	155
Murray, Robert Fuller (1863–1894):
The Poet’s Hat	Tennyson	382
A Tennysonian Fragment	Tennyson	383
Andrew M’Crie	Poe	384
Newell, Robert Henry (‘Orpheus C. Kerr’) (1836–1901):
Rejected National Anthem	W. C. Bryant	333
″ ″ ″	Emerson	333
″ ″ ″	Willis	333
″ ″ ″	Longfellow	334
″ ″ ″	Whittier	334
″ ″ ″	O. W. Holmes	334
″ ″ ″	Stoddard	335
″ ″ ″	Aldrich	335
Peacock, Thomas Love (1785–1866):
A Border Ballad	Scott	156
The Wise Men of Gotham	Coleridge	157
Fly-by-Night	Southey	160
Ye Kite-Flyers of Scotland	Campbell	162
Love and the Flimsies	Moore	163
Song by Mr. Cypress	Byron	164
Reynolds, John Hamilton (1796–1852):
Peter Bell: a Lyrical Ballad	Wordsworth	219
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–1882):
MacCracken	Tennyson	290
The Brothers	Tennyson	290
Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822):
Peter Bell the Third	Wordsworth	179
Skeat, Walter William (1831–1912):
A Clerk ther was of Cauntebrigge also	Chaucer	327
Smith, Horatio (1779–1849):
Loyal Effusion	Fitzgerald	1
An Address without a Phœnix	See Note	7
The Living Lustres	Moore	19
Drury’s Dirge	‘Laura Matilda’	29
A Tale of Drury Lane	Scott	32
Johnson’s Ghost	Johnson	38
The Beautiful Incendiary	W. R. Spencer	42
Fire and Ale	Lewis	46
Architectural Atoms	Busby	54
Punch’s Apotheosis	Hook	76
Smith, James (1775–1839):
The Baby’s Debut	Wordsworth	4
Hampshire Farmer’s Address	Cobbett	15
The Rebuilding	Southey	21
Playhouse Musings	Coleridge	49
Drury Lane Hustings	‘A Pic-Nic Poet’	52
Theatrical Alarm-Bell	Editor of the Morning Post	61
The Theatre	Crabbe	64
Macbeth	Shakespeare-Poole	70
The Stranger	Kotzebue-Thompson	72
George Barnwell	Lillo	73
Smith, James and Horatio:
Cui Bono	Byron	9
Southey, Robert (1774–1843):
Amatory Poems of Abel Shufflebottom:
1. Delia at Play		144
2. To a Painter attempting Delia’s Portrait		144
3. He proves the Existence of a Soul		145
4. ‘I would I were that portly Gentleman’		145
Love Elegies:
1. Delia’s Pocket-Handkerchief		146
2. Delia Singing		147
3. Delia’s Hair		148
4. The Theft of a Lock		149
(All imitations of the Della Cruscans.)
Stephen, James Kenneth (1859–1892):
Ode on a Retrospect of Eton College	Gray	374
A Sonnet	Wordsworth	376
Sincere Flattery of R. B.	Browning	376
Sincere Flattery of W. W. (Americanus)	Whitman	377
To A. T. M.	F. W. H. Myers	378
Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909):
The Poet and the Woodlouse	E. B. Browning	336
The Person of the House: The Kid	Patmore	338
Nephelidia	Swinburne	340
Taylor, Bayard (1825–1878):
Ode on a Jar of Pickles	Keats	274
Gwendoline	E. B. Browning	275
Angelo orders his Dinner	R. Browning	276
The Shrimp-Gatherers	Jean Ingelow	277
Cimabuella	D. G. Rossetti	278
From ‘The Taming of Themistocles’	W. Morris	280
All or Nothing	Emerson	281
The Ballad of Hiram Hover	Whittier	282
The Sewing-Machine	Longfellow	284
Taylor, Tom (1817–1880):
The Laureate’s Bust at Trinity	Tennyson	266
Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–1863):
Cabbages	L. E. L.	242
Larry O’Toole	Lever	242
The Willow Tree	Thackeray	243
Dear Jack	Fawkes	245
The Almack’s Adieu	‘Wapping Old Stairs’	247
The Knightly Guerdon	‘Wapping Old Stairs’	248
The Ghazul:
The Rocks	Oriental Love Song	245
The Merry Bard	Oriental Love Song	246
The Caique	Oriental Love Song	246
Thompson, Francis (1859–1907):
Wake! for the Ruddy Ball has taken flight	FitzGerald	379
Traill, Henry Duff (1842–1900):
Vers de Société	Locker-Lampson	347
The Puss and the Boots	R. Browning	348
After Dilettante Concetti	Rossetti	350
Twiss, Horace (1787–1849):
The Patriot’s Progress	Shakespeare	166
Our Parodies are Ended	Shakespeare	167
Fashion	Milton	167
Verses	Cowper	171
Unknown:
The Town Life	Rogers	386
Fish have their times to bite	Hemans	387
Another Ode to the North-East Wind	Kingsley	388
A Girtonian Funeral	Browning	390

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THE NEW THEATRUM POETARUM

Fired that the House reject him!——s death!
I’ll print it, and shame the fools.
Pope.

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