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Finally the poet gets through his mind-
wanderings, and hears him. And after
that whenever the poet becomes despondent
(through dropping on his toe a very heavy
weight, for example), he weeps, for it
reminds him of the aged aged man a-sitting
on a gate.
The foregoing outlines show, as it were, the skeleton of the parody. For the full humour of the song in ' Alice ' one must really enter into the spirit of Wordsworth's poem -for that, it seems to me, is precisely what Lewis Carroll had done when he wrote Ms parody.
The various names which the Knight gives his son, too, are very probably further parodying of the two names of Wordsworth's poem. The resemblance between ' The Aged Aged Man ' and ' The Leech- gatherer,' between ' Ways and Means ' and ' Resolu- tion and Independence ' is certainly not accidental.
Some traits in the not altogether admirable character of the Aged Aged Man make me suspect very strongly that Lewis Carroll was pretty thoroughly acquainted, not only with the Wordsworth poem itself, but also with the history of the poem's composition, par- ticularly the account of it in Dorothy
Wordsworth's 'Journal.' The Aged AgedJ
Man is, I am afraid, a good deal of a beggar,,
in spite of his extraordinary fertility of
imagination. Now Wordsworth's old
Leech-gatherer, in the poem, is not a beggar
in any sense far from it. But listen to
Dorothy Wordsworth's more exact account
of him : "His trade was to gather leeches ;
but now leeches were scarce, and he had not
strength for it. He lived by begging," &c.
Perhaps it is as well not to investigate too
closely into every nook and cranny of Lewis
Carroll's imagination to say nothing of"
the impossibility of investigating fully such
a vast and complex realm. But the more
one reads the ' Aged Aged Man ' as a parody
of Wordsworth, the more delightful it
becomes. And when it is remembered that
in one and the same song Lewis Carroll is
parodying Wordsworth, is imitating Thomas
Moore's poem, is making the " hero " of the
song exactly fit the character of his White
Knight, and, best of all, is producing a
poem utterly delightful to a child as welt
as to a more sophisticated reader well, the
poem is fully worthy of a place equal with,
the more renowned ' Jabberwocky."
GEOBGE R. PORTEB, B.A. Cambridge. Mass.
PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES, TAVERNS,
IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. (Seefonfe. pp. 29,' 59, 84,105, 125, 143.)
AND INNS
Three Cranes
Three Hats Inn
Three Kings
Three Nuns
Three Tuns
Three Tuns
Three Tuns Three Tuns Tom's . .
Tom's ..
Tom's M
Tom's ... Truby's
Thames Street
Upper Street, Islington
Piccadilly
Aldgate High Street
Between Cornhill and Ex 1748
change Alley St. Margaret's Hill, South-
wark Chandos Street .. .. 1723
Strand 1793
Cornhill (south side) . 1709 1718
1752 1770 1793
St. Martin's Lane, next to 1710
Young Man's Coffee-house 1 725
Eussell Street, Covent Gar- 1707 den, opposite Button's
(no. 17) 1713
Devereux Court, Strand
St. Paul's Churchyard
Thornhury, ii. 19 and 20.
Warwick Wroth, p. 148.
' A Twentieth-Century Palace,' 1908, p. 30.-
Shelley's ' Inns,' p. 42' ; Hare, i. 348.
Plan of Great Fire, R. E. A. C., ' N. & Q '
Dec. i), 1916, p. 462. Wheatley's ' London,' iii. 379.
MacMichael's ' Charing Cross,' p. 128.
Roach's L.P.P., p. 52.
Matthew Prior's ' The Chameleon.'
Plan of Great Fire, R. E. A. C., ' N. & Q. ' Dec. 9, 1916, p. 461.
Fielding's C.G.J., no. 2.
Chatterton to his sister, May. 30.
Roach's L.P.P., p. 55 ; Wheatley's ' Lon- don,' iii. 383.
Dobson's ' Hogarth,' p. 49.
MacMichael's ' Charing Cross,' pp. 57, 165..
Farquhar's ' Beaux Stratagem,' Act IV., . sc. i.
Addison's Guardian, June 2 ; Wheatley'a ' London,' iii. 383 ; Hare, i. 27.
Stirling's A.Y.H., i. 40.
Dickins and Stanton, p. 13.
Stirling's A.Y.H., i. 333; Wheatley's ' London,' iii. 383.
Sydney's ' XVIIIth Century,' p. 186 ;; Wheatley's ' London,' iii. 56.
