ished three different collections of his poetry, each entitled
_Poems on Several Occasions_. Although a few of the poems were repeated,
almost always revised, each edition is very much a different collection.
An edition was brought out in this century by Dr. Wood.[3]

I am strongly inclined to support Carey's claim to the authorship of
_Dumpling_ and its _Key_ despite Dr. E. L. Oldfield's more recent
attempt to invalidate it.[4] There were at least ten editions of
_Dumpling_ in the eighteenth century. The first seven (1726-27) appeared
during Carey's life, and these (I have seen all but the third) contain
the _Namby Pamby_ verses which later appeared under Carey's own name in
his enlarged _Poems on Several Occasions_ (1729). There was also a
"sixth edition" of _Dumpling_ (really the eighth extant edition) in
Carey's own name published "for T. Read, in Dogwell-Court, White-Friars,
Fleet-Street, MDCCXLIV." Though _Namby Pamby_ was not added to the first
edition of the _Key_, it appears in the second edition. Both editions
were published by Mrs. Dodd, of whom Dr. Oldfield says: she "seems to
have been a neighbour, and known to Carey" (p. 375). Dr. Wood indicates
that "at the foot of a folio sheet containing Carey's song _Mocking is
Catching_, published in 1726, the sixth edition of _A Learned
Dissertation on Dumpling_ is advertised as having been lately published"
(p. 442). Dr. Wood adds in a footnote that this song "appeared in _The
Musical Century_ (1740) under the title _A Sorrowful Lamentation for the
Loss of a Man and No Man_." Even more striking would seem to be the fact
that although there are ninety-one entries in his _Poems_ (1729), Carey
has placed the _Sorrowful Lamentation_ directly adjacent to _Namby
Pamby_.

Dr. Wood maintains of _Dumpling_ that "the general style bears a close
resemblance to that of the prefaces to Carey's plays and collections
of poetry" (p. 443). I should like strongly to support his statement.
Dr. Oldfield says that an inviolable regard for decency "is nowhere
contradicted in Carey's works . . . . Yet the pamphlets, besides being
palpably Whiggish, are larded _passim_ with vulgarity of the
'Close-Stool' and 'Clyster' variety" (p. 376). The reader need look no
further than _Namby Pamby_ to see that Carey satisfies Northrop Frye's
very proper observation: "Genius seems to have led practically every
great satirist to become what the world calls obscene."

As for the pamphlets being "palpab