BRITISH SATIRE 1785-1840 Volume 1 Collected Satires I: Shorter Satires Edited by Nicholas Mason LONDON PICKERING & CHATTO 2003 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 British Satire 1785-1840, Volume 1 Anon, (attrib. to Robert Merry and Joseph Jekyll) 'Wonderful Exhibition. Signor Gulielmo Pittachio' (1794) 56 TMo. 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, Pharmocopolas' (1803) 102 Anon., from The Anti-Gallican; or Standard of British Loyalty, Rjeligion 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 Contents 'An Ode to the Ladies on their Alledged Rights' (1818) 147 'A Scene from the New Tragi-Comedy entitled the "Undebauched Royalists", or, The Reformers Routed' (1819) 149 'The Peterioo Man' (1819) 153 Percy Bysshe Shelley 'Sonnet: England in 1819'(1819) 155 'A New National Anthem'(1819) 157 William Hone Non Mi Ricordo!' (1820) 160 George Gordon, Lord Byron The Irish Avatar' (1821) 171 John Hughes The Magic Lay of the One-Horse Chay' (1824) 179 Horace Smith 'Specimens of a Patent Pocket Dictionary' (1824-25) 185 Thomas Hood and John Hamilton Reynolds 'Ode to Mr. Graham, The Aeronaut' (1825) 201 An Address to the Very Reverend John Ireland, D.D. Charles Fynes Clinton, LL.D Thomas Causton, D.D. Howel Holland Edwards, M.A. The Bishop of Exeter. Wm. H. Edward Bentinck, M.A. James Webber, B.D. William Short, D.D. James Tournay, D.D. Andrew Bell, D.D. George Holcombe, D.D The Dean and Chapter of Westminster' (1825 211 Anon., from The Globe and Traveller 'Discovery of Another Poet' (1825) 215 Anon, (attrib. Theodore Hook) The March of Intellect: A New Song (1825) 219 Robert Seymour From The March of Intellect: Fashionable, Mechanical, Philosophical, Philanthropical, Professional, Political'(1829) 224 Ebenezer Elliott 'Song: Child, is thy father dead?' 229 'Burns, from the Dead' 232 The Jacobin's Prayer' (1830) 233 Wpiam] T[homas] Moncrieff The March of Intellect, A Comic Poem (1830) 237 Anon., from The Prompter A Notabil Ballad of ye Downefall of Kynges' (1831) 250 British Satin 1785-1840, Volume 1 John Wilson ('Christopher North") A New Song, to be Sung by All Loyal and True Subjects' (1832) 255 Maria Abdy 'My Very Particular Friend' (1834) 261 'A Governess Wanted' (1838) 264 George Cruikshank and Anon. The Wonderful Pill' (1837) 267 Charles Dickens The Fine Old English Gentleman. New Version. To be Said or Sung at All Conservative Dinners' (1841) 273 Explanatory Notes 277.