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Title: Parodies of Ballad Criticism (1711-1787)
A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb, 1711, by Wm.
Wagstaffe; The Knave of Hearts, 1787, by Gregory Griffin
AKA George Canning

Author: William Wagstaffe
Gregory Griffin AKA George Canning

Release Date: July 16, 2007 [EBook #22081]

Language: English

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THE AUGUSTAN REPRINT SOCIETY

_Parodies of Ballad Criticism_

(1711-1787)

William Wagstaffe,
_A Comment Upon the History of Tom Thumb_, 1711

George Canning,
_The Knave of Hearts_, 1787

Selected, with an Introduction, by
William K. Wimsatt, Jr.

Publication Number 63

Los Angeles
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
University of California
1957

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GENERAL EDITORS

RICHARD C. BOYS, University of Michigan
RALPH COHEN, University of California, Los Angeles
VINTON A. DEARING, University of California, Los Angeles
LAWRENCE CLARK POWELL, Clark Memorial Library

ASSISTANT EDITOR

W. EARL BRITTON, University of Michigan

ADVISORY EDITORS

EMMETT L. AVERY, State College of Washington
BENJAMIN BOYCE, Duke University
LOUIS BREDVOLD, University of Michigan
JOHN BUTT, King's College, University of Durham
JAMES L. CLIFFORD, Columbia University
ARTHU