Excerpt from And Other Poets

Having thus established and betrayed my own position I immediately disclaim it. Hav ing spiked my own guns I cannot very well announce that I have attempted fito parody the thoughts, moods and manners of the poets vic timized rather than any specific workgaand that in only one case did I have a particular poem in mind. Neither can I now lay claim to any educative and serious pretensions. Nor can I go on to say anything about the forms and functions of parody, pointing out the differ ence between the mere burlesque of sound and the subtler (and more critical) parody of sense. I will add however, that throughout this slender sheaf of verse, (i quote from Felicia Hemans, The Bookman and the Pub lishers' Fall Catalogue) the latter form has been given serious consideration, and that the present parodist has employed only this more elevated and illuminating method.

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