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BRITISH SATIRE 1785–1840 Volume 1 Collected Satires I: Shorter Satires BRITISH SATIRE 1785–1840 General Editor: John Strachan Consultant Editor: Steven E. Jones Volume Editors: Nicholas Mason David Walker Benjamin Colbert John Strachan Jane Moore BRITISH SATIRE 1785–1840 Volume 1 Collected Satires I: Shorter Satires Edited by Nicholas Mason First published 20 03 by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon O X 14 4RN 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © Taylor & Francis 2003 All rights reserved, including those of translation into foreign languages. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinany information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publis hers. Notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA A catalogue record for this title is available from the Library of Congress ISBN-13: 978-1-85196-729-2 (set) Typeset by JCS Publishing Services DOI: 10.4324/9780429348143 Figure 1: Seymour, ‘Poetry’, from The March of Intellect (1829) Source: Robert Seymour, The March of Intellect: Fashionable, Mechanical, Philosophical, Philanthropical, Professional, Political, London: Thomas M’Lean, 1829. CONTENTS List of illustrations xi Acknowledgements xiii General Introduction by John Strachan xv Editorial Principles xxvii Introduction by Nicholas Mason xxix Robert Burns ‘The Holy Fair’ (1786) 1 Helen Leigh ‘A Specimen of Modern Female Education’ (1788) 11 ‘The Lady and the Doctor; An Anecdote’ (1788) 15 William Cowper ‘Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce’ (1788) 16 ‘Pity for the Poor Africans’ (1788) 20 Elizabeth Hands ‘A Poem, On the Supposition of an Advertisement Appearing in a Morning Paper, of the Publication of a Volume of Poems, by a Servant Maid’ (1789) 23 ‘A Poem, On the Supposition of the Book Having Been Published and Read’ (1789) 26 John Wolcot (‘Peter Pindar’) ‘Song, by Mr. Paine’ (1791) 30 ‘Ode to Burke’ (1792) 33 Thomas Spence ‘Burke’s Address to the “Swinish Multitude”’ (1793) 37 John Thelwall and Daniel Isaac Eaton ‘King Chaunticlere; or, The Fate of Tyranny’ (1793) 41 Daniel Isaac Eaton (‘Antitype’) The Pernicious Effects of the Art of Printing Upon Society, Exposed (c. 1793–94) 47 vii British Satire 1785–1840, Volume 1 Anon. (attrib. to Robert Merry and Joseph Jekyll) ‘Wonderful Exhibition. Signor Gulielmo Pittachio’ (1794) 56 ‘No. II. More Wonderful Wonders!!!’ (1794) 62 ‘Wonderful Exhibition!!! Positively the Last Season of His Performing’ (1795) 63 Samuel Taylor Coleridge ‘Fire, Famine, and Slaughter: A War Eclogue’ (1798) 68 Carolina Oliphant (Lady Nairne) ‘The Laird o’ Cockpen’ (c. 1798) 74 William Blake ‘When Klopstock England Defied’ (c. 1797–1800) 77 Mary Robinson ‘The Mistletoe, A Christmas Tale’ (1799) 81 ‘The Confessor, A Sanctified Tale’ (1800) 87 William Wordsworth ‘A Poet’s Epitaph’ (1800) 90 Anna Dodsworth ‘To Matthew Dodsworth, Esq. On a Noble Captain’s Declaring that his Finger was Broken by a Gate’ (1802) 95 ‘Badinage. On Recovering from a Bad Fit of Sickness at Bath’ (1802) 98 George Canning ‘Ambubaiarum Collegia, Pharmocopolæ’ (1803) 102 Anon., from The Anti-Gallican; or Standard of British Loyalty, Religion and Liberty ‘A Farce in One Act, Called THE INVASION OF ENGLAND’ (1804) 109 Anon., from The Scourge ‘An Ensorian Essay on Something, Meaning Any Thing, and Proving Nothing’ (1812) 112 Anna Laetitia Barbauld Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (1812) 118 Charles Lamb ‘The Triumph of the Whale’ (1812) 130 Jane Taylor ‘Recreation’ (1816) 134 John Keats ‘Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream’ (1817) 140 Anon., from The Black Dwarf ‘To Belinda’ (1818) 143 ‘Rights of Women. Answer to Florio’ (1818) 147 viii
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