Excerpt from and Other Poets
"Parody". said someone, and it must have been G.K. Chesterton, "is the critic's half-holiday." "Far from converting virtue into a paradox and degrading truth by ridicule," (I am quoting Isaac D'Israeli) "parody will only strike at what is chimerical and false; it is not a piece of buffoonery so much as a critical exposition." Casting about for something between an apology and an air of dignity the parodist usually fishes up phrases like the foregoing ones. Or, if he has an educative turn of mind, (and he generally has) he prefaces his collection with a disquisition on the various forms and classes of parody; pointing out the difference between the mere burlesque of sound and the subtler (and more critical) parody of sense. After which the reader is rather sharply told that the latter form is the only one worth serious consideration.
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