DGR's parody street ballad is an ironical, not to say cynical, critique of the entire socio-political scene—of the French revolutionaries, of the English Chartists, and of the government.
Printing History
The poem was first published by WMR in 1898 in the
Pall Mall Magazine
, “Some Scraps of Verse and Prose”, presumably from the Ashley Library manuscript.
This collection contains 3 texts and images, including:
1911
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
DGR's parody street ballad is an ironical, not to say cynical, critique of the entire socio-political scene—of the French revolutionaries, of the English Chartists, and of the government.
Printing History
The poem was first published by WMR in 1898 in the Pall Mall Magazine , “Some Scraps of Verse and Prose”, presumably from the Ashley Library manuscript.