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 Anthems and Patriotic Songs,” “A Memoir of George Cruikshank,” “The Poets Laureate of England,” “The Æsthetic Movement in England,” etc._ ―――― “We maintain that, far from converting virtue into a paradox, and degrading truth by ridicule, PARODY will only strike at what is chimerical and false; it is not a piece of buffoonery so much as a critical exposition. What do we parody but the absurdities of writers, who frequently; make their heroes act against nature, common-sense, and truth? After all, it is the public, not we, who are the authors of these PARODIES. D’ISRAELI’S Curiosities of Literature. ―――― VOLUME III. CONTAINING PARODIES OF LORD BYRON. SCOTCH SONGS. SIR WALTER SCOTT. ROBERT SOUTHEY. CHARLES KINGSLEY. THOMAS CAMPBELL. THE POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN. MISS C. FANSHAWE. THOMAS MOORE. A. C. SWINBURNE. ROBERT BURNS. MRS. FELICIA HEMANS. OLIVER GOLDSMITH. ―――― REEVES & TURNER, 196, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. 1886. _All these things here collected are not mine, But divers grapes make but one kind of wine; So I from many learned authors took The various matters written in this book; What’s not mine own shall not by me be fathered, The most part I, in many years, have gathered._ JOHN TAYLOR, the Water Poet. “_It was because Homer was the most popular poet, that he was most susceptible of the playful honours of the Greek parodist; unless the prototype is familiar to us, a parody is nothing._” ISAAC D’ISRAELI. BROWN & DAVENPORT, 40, SUN STREET, FINSBURY, LONDON, E.C. INDEX. ――- The authors of the original poems are arranged in alphabetical order; the titles of the original poems are printed in small capitals, followed by the Parodies, the authors of which are named, in italics, wherever possible. ―――― A Chapter on Parodies By Isaac D’Israeli 1 ―――― The Poetry of the “Anti-Jacobin.”