PARODIES
OF THE WORKS OF
ENGLISH & 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 parodox, and degrading truth by ridicule, PARODY will only strike atwhat is chimerical and false; it is not a piece of buffoonery so much as a critical exposition. What do we parody but the absurditiesof writers, who frequently make their heroes act against nature, common-sense, and truth? After all, it is the public, not we, who arethe authors of these PARODIES."
D'ISRAELI'S Curiosities of Literature.
VOLUME I,
CONTAINING PARODIES OF THE POEMS OF
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON,
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,
BRET HARTE, THOMAS HOOD,
AND THE
REVEREND C. WOLFE.
REEVES & TURNER, 196, STRAND, LONDON, W.C.
1884.
"Le sujet que l'on entreprend de parodier doit toujours être un ouvrageconnu, célèbre, estimé. La critique d'une pièce médiocre ne peut jamais devenirintéressante, ni piquer la curiosité. Il faut que l'imitation soit fidèle, que lesplaisantéries naissent du fond des choses, et paraissent s'être présentées d'elles-mêmes,sans avoir coûté aucune peine."
Mémoire sur l'origine de la Parodie, etc. Par M. l' Abbé Sallier, 1733.
"It was because Homer was the most popular poet, that he was most susceptibleof the playful honours of the Greek parodist; unless the prototype is familiar tous, a parody is nothing!"
ISAAC D'ISRAELI.
THOBURN & CO., St. Bride's Steam Press, 136, Salisbury Square, Fleet Street, London, E.C.
PREFACE.
When this Collection was originally projected, it seemed so unlikely to receive muchsupport from the general public that it was intended to publish a few only of the bestParodies of each author.
After the issue of the first few numbers, however, it became evident that "a hit—a palpable hit—"had been made, the sale rapidly increased, and subscribers not only expressed their desire thatthe collection should be made as nearly complete as possible, but by the loans of scarce books,and copies of Parodies, helped to make it so.
This involved an alteration in the original arrangement, and as it would have been monotonous tofill a whole number of sixteen pages with p
...BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
Sitemize Üyelik ÜCRETSİZDİR!