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Omniana/Volume 1/Parodies

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3229416Omniana/Volume 1 — Parodies1812Samuel Taylor Coleridge

105. Parodies.

Parodies on new poems are read as satires; on old ones, (the soliloquy of Hamlet for instance) as compliments. A man of genius may securely laugh at a mode of attack, by which his reviler in half a century or less, becomes his encomiast.