Parodies of the Romantic Age : Pickering & Chatto : 9781851964758 : 01 Feb 1998 : In this reset collection, Stones and Strachan bring together a wealth of material ranging from verse parodies originally published in pamphlet form, circulated in manuscript, or published in periodicals, to longer works such as P G Patmore's prose parodies of the works of Byron, Lamb, and Hazlitt. Much of this material has long been neglected. The edition also includes William Frederick Deacon's Warreniana, a delightful sequence of parodies of major Romantic writers, as yet virtually unknown. Romanticism's annus mirabilis of 1798 saw the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge. In the same year The Anti-Jacobin's critique of Romantic sentiments fully emerged. Founded by George Canning and friends, with the approval of William Pitt, the periodical had immediate political concerns, but the effect of its poetry goes far beyond these. The Anti-Jacobin's parodies were endlessly inventive, wi