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Verse

i Collections

89. Mirth and Metre/ By/ Two Merry Men./ Frank E. Smedley, and/ Edmund H. Yates./ ‘I’d rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience/ to make me sad.’ – Shakespeare./ With Illustrations by McConnell.// London and N.Y.: Routledge, 18 55. [Contributions by Yates (all signed): ‘St Michael’s Eve’ (Rpt. from TheKeepsake, 1854); ‘The King of the Cats: a Rhine Legend’; ‘The Lapwing’ (Rpt. from The Court Journal, 24 Aug 1852); ‘Sir Rupert the Red’ (Rpt. from The Court Journal, 24 Sept, 9 Oct, 16 Oct, 30 Oct 1852); ’Count Louis of Toulouse’ (Rpt. from The Court Journal, 31 July 1852); ’Annie Lyle’ (Rpt. from The Court Journal, 14 Aug 1852); ’Jack Rasper’s Wager; or “Ne sutor ultra crepidam”’; ‘The Overflowings of the Late Pellucid Rivers, Esq.’ (Rpt. from George Cruikshank’s Magazine, Feb 1854).]

ii Uncollected

90. ‘On the Death of Thomas Moore’. The Court Journal n.s. 207 (6 Mar 1852):151. Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

91. ‘Night’. The Court Journal n.s. 208(13 Mar 1852): 167. Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

92. ‘Priez pour les malheureux’. The Court Journal n.s. 210(27 Mar 1852):205. Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

93. ‘A Word of Comfort’. The Court Journal n.s. 214 (24 Apr 1852):27 3. Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

94. ‘Echoes from Hafiz’. The Court Journal n.s. 218 (22 May 1852):359; n.s. 220 (5 June 1852):400. Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

95. ‘The Waking Hour’. The Court Journal n.s. 227 (24 July 1852):521. Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

96. ‘Ainsi va le monde’. The Court Journal n.s. 229 (7 Aug 1852):558 . Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

97. ‘The Meeting of the New Parliament’. The CourtJournal n.s. 242(6 Nov 1852):756. Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

98. ‘The Scholar’. The Court Journal n.s. 245 (27 Nov 1852):807. Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

99. ‘A toi‘. The Court Journal n.s. 246 (4 Dec 1852): 820. Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

100. ‘The Ennuye’. The Court Journal n.s. 233 (4 Sept 1852):615 . Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

101. ‘The Emigrants’. The Court Journal n.s. 234(11 Sept 1852):627. Signed ’E.H.Y.’.

102. ‘The First Dark Day of Nothingness’. The Court Journal n.s. 247 (11 Dec 1852):835. Signed ‘E.H.Y.’.

103. ‘Snowballing’. The Illustrated London News, 24 Dec 1853, p. 578. Signed.

104. ‘The Mistletoe-Seller’. The Illustrated London News, 24 Dec 1853, p. 583. Signed.

105. ‘I Number None But Sunny Hours’. The Keepsake 1853 , p. 62. Signed. [Described by Yates as an ‘Ingoldsby poem’. It had been submitted to and accepted by Ainsworth’s Magazine in 18 51, but was never published there. (RE, 1:222-4, 246).]

106. ‘To -‘. The Keepsake 1853, pp. 270-1. Signed.

107. ‘The Ordeal’. The Keepsake 1856, pp. 109-10. Signed.

108. ‘The Brill: a Lay of Brighton’. The Keepsake 1857, pp. 254-5. Signed.

109. ‘All Saints’. Comic Poets of the NineteenthCentury, ed. W. Davenport Adams. Routledge, [1876], p. 266. [This poem is also reprinted in the Penguin Book of Comic and Curious Verse, ed. J.M. Cohen, 1962. I have not found its original place of publication.]

110. ‘Pommery Greno’. Ibid., pp. 266-7. [Original place of publication not found.]

111. ‘Invited and Declining’. Ibid., pp. 267-70. [Original place of publication not found.]

112. ‘Aged Forty’. Ibid., pp. 270-3. [Original place of publication not found.]

113. ‘A Premiere at the Prince of Wales’. The World [?-] Jan 1878. LRpt. in (Bancroft, S.B. and Mrs), Mr and Mrs Bancroft; On and off the Stage, 2:124-7.]

Edmund Yates

Edmund Yates

by P. D. Edwards

VFRG No. 3

Introduction

Bibliography

Novels

Collections of Shorter Fiction and Sketches

Shorter Fiction – Uncollected

Verse

Plays

Journalism

Autobiography

Books Edited or Introduced by Yates

Yates Manuscripts

Reviews of Yates’s Novels, Plays, and Recollections and Experiences

Biographical and Critical Sources

Addenda and Corrigenda

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