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WA LT E R H A M I LT O N ,
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.
“I have here only made a Nosegay of culled Flowers, and have brought little more of my own than
the band which ties them.”
V O L U M E V.
CONTAINING PARODIES OF
LORD MACAULAY.
W. M. PRAED. W. M. THACKERAY. LORD LYTTON.
V O L U M E V.
HE completion of the Fifth Volume of this
collection of Parodies affords me an opportunity
of acknowledging many acts of courtesy shown
by gentlemen who take an interest in the
subject.
They have appreciated the importance of
making the collection complete, and reliable as
a book of reference on Parody and Burlesque,
and by the information they have sent, have
assisted me to carry out my design so far as it
has gone.
In some few cases the difficulty of finding the authors has prevented me
from obtaining their permission to insert their poems, but in every instance
due acknowledgment has been made.
No trouble has been spared to obtain every parody worth quoting, to
trace every poem to its original source, and to give the Authors’ names,
wherever they could be ascertained.
Without the assistance of the Authors themselves it would have been
impossible to collect and verify such a mass of information, and my thanks
are especially due to the following gentlemen, either for permission to
reprint their parodies, or for other literary assistance in the compilation of
the work: E. B. Anstee, Cuthbert Bede, (Rev. E. Bradley,) F. W. Crawford,
T. F. Dillon-Croker, J. G. Dalton (of Boston, U.S.) F. B. Doveton, James
Gordon, F.S.A., J. H. Ingram, J. Brodie-Innes, John Lane, Rev. H. C.
Leonard, J. M. Lowry, A. W. Mackenzie, F. B. Perkins (of San Francisco,
U.S.) Walter Parke, Edward Simpson, G. R. Sims, T. H. Smith, (of Chicago,
U.S.) Edward Walford, M.A., C. H. Waring, and Edmund H. Yates.
Not only has their friendly aid cheered my labors, but it has encouraged
me to hope for equally valuable assistance during the publication of the
Sixth Volume, which will deal principally with the works of living poets, or
with the poems of those who have only recently passed away.
WALTER HAMILTON,
57, Gauden Road, Clapham, S.W.
December, 1888.
T H O M A S G R AY
Born in Cornhill, London, December 26, 1716.
Died in Cambridge, July 30, 1771.
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The Elegy in a Country Churchyard was commenced by Gray in 1742, at
the age of 34; it was then laid aside, to be taken up again after the death of
his aunt, Mary Antrobus, in 1749. Stoke-Poges Churchyard, where this lady
was buried, is the generally accepted scene of the poem, and there the poet
was himself afterwards laid to rest.
The “Elegy” was completed at Stoke in June, 1750, a copy, in MS., was
sent immediately by Gray to his friend Horace Walpole, and another to Dr.
Wharton of Durham, which latter is now in the library of the British
Museum. Another MS. is in the library of Pembroke College, Cambridge,
but which was really the original MS. cannot be definitely ascertained, as
Gray sent out several other copies to his friends. Hence the difficulty there
is now in deciding upon the particular version of the “Elegy” which
received the last finishing touches of the author, who was known to be most
fastidious in the diction, and punctuation of his poems.
On the 12th June, 1750, Gray announced to Walpole that “a thing,”
whose beginning he had seen long before, had at last got an end to it, “a
merit,” he added, “that most of my writings have wanted and are like to
want.” This “thing” was the “Elegy.” Walpole showed it about, copies were
taken, and early in 1751 Gray received a letter from the editors of the
“Magazine of Magazines” informing him that his “ingenious poem” was in
the press, and begging not only his indulgence, but the honour of his
correspondence. “I am not at all disposed,” wrote Gray, “to be either so
indulgent or so correspondent as they desire.” Gray had not intended to
publish the poem, but annoyed at the unscrupulous action of the proprietors
of the “Magazine of Magazines,” he determined to forestall them if
possible, and requested Walpole to get the “Elegy” printed without the
author’s name, “in what form is most convenient to the printer, but on his
best paper and character; he must correct the press himself, and print it
without any intervals between the stanzas, because the sense is in some
places continued beyond them.” Accordingly, on the 16th of February,
1751, five days after this letter was written, the first edition was printed and
published by Robert Dodsley of Pall Mall. In this hasty manner, and
without the author’s corrections, was issued from the press one of the most
popular poems in the English language.
It also appeared in The Magazine of Magazines (London) for February,
1751, where it was introduced as having been composed “by the very
ingenious Mr. Gray, of Peterhouse, Cambridge.” In this it was entitled,
Stanzas written in a Country Churchyard, although it was entered in the
Index as An Elegy made in a Country Churchyard. This was more modern
in its orthography, and contained several variations from the authorised
edition published by Dodsley.
There can be little doubt but that this pirated version of the “Elegy” was
at first generally preferred to Gray’s authorised edition, in which there were
some very obvious errors, due to its hasty production. Certain it is that all
subsequent editions far more nearly resembled the pirated version, than that
printed by Dodsley at Gray’s request.
Dodsley’s first edition was in quarto, and is now excessively rare. The
following is an exact reprint of it, the original orthography and style of
printing being in strict accordance with the copy now in the library of the
British Museum. The only variation being that the stanzas are numbered for
convenience of reference to the foot notes.
AN
ELEGY
WROTE IN A
18. After this verse, in Mr. Gray’s first MS. of the Poem, were the four
following:—
The thoughtless world to Majesty may bow,
Exalt the brave, and idolize success;
But more to innocence their safety owe,
Than Pow’r or Genius e’er conspir’d to bless.
And here the Poem was originally intended to conclude, before the
happy idea of the hoary-headed Swain, &c. suggested itself to him.
23.
Ev’n in our ashes live their wonted fires.
Ch’i veggio nel pensier, dolce mio fuoco,
Fredda una lingua, et due begli occhi chiusi
Rimaner doppo noi pien di faville.
Petrarch, Son. 169.
25. In the M.S. copy of the Elegy bequeathed by Gray to his friend
Mason which is now in the possession of Sir William Fraser, Bart., the last
two lines of this stanza read:—
With hasty footsteps brush the dews away
On the high brow of yonder hanging lawn.
After this stanza in the same manuscript there was the following:—
Him have we seen the greenwood side along,
While o’er the heath we hied, our labour’s done,
Oft as the woodlark pip’d her farewell song,
With wistful eyes pursue the setting sun.
“I rather wonder (says Mr. Mason) that he rejected this stanza, as it
completes the account of his whole day; whereas, this Evening scene being
omitted, we have only his Morning walk, and his Noontide repose.”