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...theme, as their notice expressed it, "will be appropriate to the more or less primal scene in which it is staged: Is our local civilization making life too complicated and artificial and what, of anything, ought or can we do about it." I am left wondering what Wordsworth could have thought of all this...
They were never so lucky before, and they certainly were far less adept. But to judge from MacDonald's collection, four centuries have yielded some intelligent and ingenious parodies as well as a lot of tripe. Wordsworth, Browning, and Swinburne, have paid well for their more curious mannerisms of style. J. K. Stephen cautiously and respectfully parodies Browning in a poem of "sincere flattery" that ends...
According to tentative English Department plans, Buckley, who is currently teaching at Columbia, will probably also off a graduate seminar in Wordsworth and Byron...
...material, and in separating the living wit from the dead cats flung in literary battles long ago. The parody buff will find few representative favorites missing here (J. C. Squire is one). Macdonald was uplifted by his rediscovery of The Stuffed Owl (title taken from a wonderfully woeful Wordsworth poem of the same name), an Anthology of Bad Verse published in 1930. He was dispirited by the six-volume collection of parody published in the 1880s, which contained 86 versions of Gray's Elegy, 60 versions of Poe's The Raven, and 21 of The Charge...
Ferry has edited a book, Laura Wordsworth. His latest book, On the Way to the Island (a collection of poetry), will be released soon by the Wesleyan University Press...