Parodies of Poems
A® old favourite, "You are old, Father William," from "Alice in Wonderland" is a curiosity in that it is a parody which has outlived the original. That happens occasionally, For instance, there lived in the Victorian Era ‘an enormously popular poet called Martin Tupper. He was a contemporary of Tennyson, and had as large a public-perhaps a
larger. To-day he is quite forgotten, except as a bad curiosity, a horrible example, and he lives most vividly in a burlesque by that prince of parody writers, Charles Stuart Calverley. Well, Southey wrote the original "You are old, Father William’a moral poem, which is hardly remembered now. Its original title is "The Old Man’s Comforts, and How He Gained Them."-(Poetry Hour, 2YA, May 2).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 100, 23 May 1941, Page 5
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125Parodies of Poems New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 100, 23 May 1941, Page 5
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