Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Notes Toward an Introduction

1. Shelley’s Wrinkled Lip, Smith’s Gigantic Leg

2. Frost’s Horse, Wilbur’s Ride

3. Lowell’s Skunk, Heaney’s Skunk

4. Longfellow’s Hiawatha, Carroll’s Hiawatha: The Name and Nature of Parody

5. Keats’s Chapman’s Homer, Justice’s Henry James

6. Shakespeare’s Rotten Weeds, Shakespeare’s Deep Trenches

7. Pound’s Métro, Williams’s Wheelbarrow

8. Dickinson’s Nerves, Frost’s Woods

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Notes

Index