"Parodist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... friend Swift, dissipated life in literary idleness, with parodies and travesties on most of his contemporaries; and he made these little things often more exquisite at the cost of consuming on them a genius capable of better. A parodist or a burlesquer is a wit who is perpetually on the watch to catch up or to disguise an author's words, to swell out his defects, and pick up his blunders—to amuse the public! King was a wit, who lived on the highway of literature, appropriating, ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli
... as Franklin P. Adams has considered that the ablest living parodist in verse is J. C. Squire. Certainly his Collected Parodies is a masterly performance quite fit to go on the shelf with Max Beerbohm's A Christmas Garland. In Collected Parodies will be found all those verses which, published earlier in magazines ...
— When Winter Comes to Main Street • Grant Martin Overton |
