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Excerpt from Leading Cases Done Into English: And Other Diversions
IN setting my own name to a collection of tries including several parodies of our recent and living masters in English poetry, I feel that a word of explan ation is due. Parody does not, to my mind, imply any want of respect for the original. Rather I would say that, where the original has any real worth and, distinction, no parodist can succeed who has not a fairly adequate sense of its distinctive merits. Indig nation or contempt may give point to a parody in special cases; there are also parodies which we enjoy simply as grotesques, with little or no thought of their correspondence to the thing parodied. A very few great writers are too universal to give a handle to parody; many who are not obscure give none for an opposite reason, that they lack any prominent character at all.
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