Charles Stuart Calverley is by common consent the king of metrical parodists.

CALVERLEY, CHARLES STUART, a clever English parodist, Fellow of Christ's Church, Oxford; wrote "Fly-Leaves" and "Verses and Translations"; his parodies among the most amusing of the century, flavoured by the author's scholarship (1831-1884).

" Actors, like poets, have provincial parodists of their styles in even greater numbers, so adoringly imitative is humanity.

We are sad parodists.