Opening
PARODIES
OF THE WORKS OF
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS,
COLLECTED AND ANNOTATED BY
WALTER HAMILTON,
Fellow of the Royal Geographical, and Royal Historical Societies; Author of “A History of National Patriotic Songs,” “A Memoir of George Cruikshank,” “The Poets Laureate of England,” “The Æsthetic Movement in England,” etc.
VOLUME VI.
CONTAINING PARODIES OF
A. C. Swinburne. G. R. Sims. Robert Browning.
F. Locker-Lampson. Austin Dobson. Dante G. Rossetti.
OSCAR WILDE. J. DRYDEN. A. POPE. MARTIN F. TUPPER.
BALLADES, RONDEAUS, VILLANELLES, TRIOLETS.
NURSERY RHYMES AND CHILDREN’S SONGS.
PARODIES AND POEMS IN PRAISE OF TOBACCO.
PROSE PARODIES.
SLANG, FLASH, AND CANT SONGS.
RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL PARODIES.
Bibliography of Parody, and Dramatic Burlesques
Some things are very good, pick out the best, Good wits compiled them, and I wrote the rest; If thou dost buy it, it will quit the cost, Read it, and all thy labour is not lost. JOHN TAYLOR, the Water Poet.
REEVES & TURNER, 196, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. ―― 1889.