Edited by Dwight MacDonald

Preface by Dwight MacDonald

 

PART ONE: THE BEGINNINGS

After                                                                    by       

MEDIEVAL ROMANCES                          Geoffrey Chaucer                   

GEOFFREY CHAUCER                             Alexander Pope

GEOFFREY CHAUCER                             W. W. Skeat

JOHN LYLY                                                 William Shakespeare

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE                     William Shakespeare

THOMAS NASHE                                      William Shakespeare

JOHN DONNE                                            Sir John Suckling

GEORGE HERBERT                                  Christopher Hervey

JOHN DRYDEN                                        George Villiers, Duke of
Buckingham

ROBERT BOYLE                                       Jonathan Swift

AMBROSE PHILIPS                                  Henry Carey

JOHN MILTON                                          John Philips

ALEXANDER POPE                                 Isaac Hawkins Browne

JONATHAN SWIFT                                  Isaac Hawkins Browne

ROBERT SOUTHEY                                 G. Canning and J. H. Frere

THE SENTIMENTAL NOVEL                  Jane Austen

 

PART TWO: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

     After                                              by

  GEORGE CRABBE                                     James Smith

  WILLIAM COBBETT                                 James Smith

  ROBERT BURNS                                        Shirley Brooks

  ROBERT BURNS                                        James Clerk-Maxwell

  LORD BYRON                                            Thomas Love Peacock

  LORD BYRON                                            J. K. Stephen

  SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE            James Hogg

  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH                      J. K. Stephen

  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH                      James Smith

  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH                      John Keats

  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH                      Catherine Fanshawe

  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH                      James Hogg

  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH                      James Hogg

  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH                      John Hamilton Reynolds

  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH                      Lord Byron

  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH                      Walter Savage Landor

  WILLIAM WORDSWORTH                      Hartley Coleridge

  JAMES FENIMORE COOPER                  Bret Harte

  EDGAR ALLAN POE                                 Anonymous

  EDGAR ALLAN POE                                 Bayard Taylor

  EDGAR ALLAN POE                                 Thomas Hood, the Younger

  HENRY W. LONGFELLOW                      Anonymous

  HENRY W. LONGFELLOW                      J. W. Morris

  HENRY W. LONGFELLOW                      George A. Strong

  FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON          H. D. Traill

  EDWARD LEAR                                         Samuel Foote

  CHARLES DICKENS                                 Robert Benchley

  ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON                  William Aytoun

  ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON                  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  ROBERT BROWNING                               J. K. Stephen

  ROBERT BROWNING                               Bayard Taylor

  ROBERT BROWNING                               Anonymous

  ROBERT BROWNING                               H. D. Traill

  ROBERT BROWNING                               C. S. Calverley

  ROBERT BROWNING                               J. K. Stephen

  EMILY DICKINSON                                  Firman Houghton

  WILLIAM MORRIS                                    C. S. Calverley

  WILLIAM MORRIS                                    Anonymous

  CHRISTINA ROSSETTI                             A. C. Hilton

  DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI                  H. D. Traill

  ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE     Mortimer Collins

  ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    A. C. Hilton

  ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Richard Le Gallienne

  ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Lewis Carroll

  WALT WHITMAN                                      J. K. Stephen

  WALT WHITMAN                                      Bayard Taylor

  WALT WHITMAN                                      E. B. White

  HENRY JAMES                                          Max Beerbohm

  GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS                Anthony Brode

  RUDYARD KIPLING                                Guy Wetmore Carryl

  RUDYARD KIPLING                                J. K. Stephen

 

PART THREE: BEERBOHM--AND AFTER

 

SOME LEAVES FROM MAX BEERBOHM'S A Christmas Garland

P.C., X, 36 ….............………... R*DY*RD K*PL*NG

Endeavour ..............…………. .JOHN G*LSW*RTHY

A Sequelula to The Dynasts…..TH*M*'S H*RDY

Scruts …………...................... ARN*LD B*NN*TT

Perkins and Mankind ....……...H. G. W*LLS

A Recollection ....………........ EDM*ND G*SSE

PLUS THREE TWIGS:

The Sorrows of Millicent …………….. M*R*E  C*R*LLI

The Blessedness of Apple-Pie Beds ..... R*CH*RD L* G*LL*"NNE

The Defossilized Plum-Pudding ........... H. G.W*LLS

 

Post-Beerbohm:

after                                                                 by

A. E. HOUSMAN                                          Humbert Wolfe

WALTER DE LA MARE                              Samuel Hofjenstein

GERTRUDE STEIN                                      Arthur Flegenheimer

THEODORE DREISER                                 Robert Benchley

MENCKEN and NATHAN                           Robert Benchley

T. S. ELIOT                                                    Henry Reed

T. S. ELIOT                                                    "Myra Buttle"

ARCHIBALD MACLEISH                           Edmund Wilson

EZRA POUND                                              Gilbert Highet

ROBERT FROST                                           Firman Houghton

ALDOUS HUXLEY                                       Cyril Connolly

J. P. MARQUAND                                        Wolcott Gibbs

WILLIAM FAULKNER                                Peter De Fries

ERNEST HEMINGWAY                              Wolcott Gibbs

ERNEST HEMINGWAY                              E. B. White

THORNTON WILDER                                 Kenneth Tynan

JAMES GOULD COZZENS                         Nathaniel Benchley

JAMES GOULD COZZENS                         Felicia Lamport

JAMES JONES                                              Peter De Vries

JACK KEROUAC                                         John Updike

ALLEN GINSBERG                                      Louis Simpson

 

PART FOUR: SPECIALTIES

The  NONSENSE POEMS IN THE Alice BOOKS, by Lewis Carroll;

with the Originals by Dr. Watts and Other Hands

SOME UNRELIABLE HISTORY, by Maurice Baring

THE REHEARSAL

JASON AND MEDEA

KING LEAR'S DAUGHTER

            FROM THE DIARY OF MRS. JOHN MILTON

FRAGMENT OF A GREEK TRAGEDY, by A. E. HOUSEMAN

VARIATIONS ON A THEME

SALAD, by Mortimer Collins

THE POETS AT TEA, by Barry Pain

VARIATIONS OF AN AIR, by G. K. Chesterton

            THAT ENGLISH WEATHER, by Ezra Pound and Anon

REVIEWS OF UNWRITTEN BOOKS, by "Baron Corvo" and/or Sholto Douglas

MACHIAVELLI'S DESPATCHES FROM THE BOER WAR

TACITUS'S Scripturae de Populis Consociatis Americae Septentrionalis

TIME . . . FORTUNE . . . LIFE . . . LUCE, by Wolcott Gibbs

The Literary Life on the TIMES

LITERARY LOST & FOUND DEPT., by Robert Benchley

            SPEAKING OF BOOKS, by Donald Malcolm

ALF STRINGERSOLL'S REPORT ON BROOKLYN, by William Atwood

W. B. Scott:

CHICAGO LETTER: Agony, a Sense of Plight

            GAETAN FIGNOLE: Pages de Journal

Cyril Connolly:

WHAT WILL HE DO NEXT?

            YEAR NINE

Paul Jennings:

THE BOY'S GOT TALENT

RESISTENTIALISM

PRIMITIVISM—ENGLISH: from Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons

PRIMITIVISM—AMERICAN: from Torrents of Spring, by Ernest Hemingway

SOME EXCURSIONS INTO THE VERNACULAR

A BALLAD UPON A WEDDING, by Sir John Suckling

THE HUMBLE PETITION OF FRANCES HARRIS, by Jonathan Swift

GRANDFATHER'S OLD RAM, by Mark Twain

MUSEUM TOUR, by James Joyce

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IN AMERICAN, by H. L. Mencken

            THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS IN EISENHOWESE, by Oliver Jensen

THE WEST POINT ADDRESS, by Dwight David Eisenhower

INAUGURAL ADDRE.SS, by Warren G. Harding

            THE AVANTGARDE VERNACULAR: by S. J. Perelman

SELF-PARODIES: Conscious

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Max Beerhohm

William Faulkner

SELF-PARODIES: Unconscious

Richard Crashaw

Abraham Cowley

Samuel Johnson

Edward Gibbon

George Crabbe

I.ord Byron

Edgar Allan Poe

Percy Bysshe Shelley

William Wordsworth

Robert Browning

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Charles Dickens

Walt Whitman

Rudyard Kipling

SCIENTIFICATION (i): The Parameters of Social Movement, a Formal Paradigm,

by Daniel Bell

SCIENTIFICATION (ii): Struwwelpeter, a psychoanalytical interpretation

by Dr. Rudolph Friedmann

UN PEU DE FRANCAIS:

L'AFFAIRE LEMOINE, par Marcel Proust

Apres Balzac

Apres Flaubert

Apres Michelet

EXERCICES DE STYLE, par Raymond Queneau

THE OXEN OF THE SUN PARODIES, by James Joyce

THREE NONSENSE PLAYS, by Ring Lardner

Dinner Bridge

Clemo Uti (The Water Lilies)

I Gaspiri {The Upholsterers)

APPENDIX: SOME NOTES ON PARODY, by Dwight Macdonald

INDEX