When the rebuilt Drury Lane Theatre invited addresses for its opening night in 1812, the brothers James and Horace Smith imagined the entries the leading poets of the day might have sent. Their parodies of Wordsworth, Byron, Scott, Coleridge, Southey, Crabbe and others mimic each voice with affectionate precision.
Among the finest parodies in English, still funny to anyone who knows the Romantic poets. Download the free EPUB.