TY - BOOK AU - Smith,James AU - Smith,Horace TI - Rejected Addresses; Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum AV - PR PY - 2003/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Parodies N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejected_Addresses; Release date is 2003-02-01; Transcribed from the 1879 John Murray edition by David Price; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Rejected Addresses; Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum" by James Smith and Horace Smith is a collection of parodies published in 1812. The book contains twenty-one good-natured pastiches of contemporary poets and prose writers, framed as failed entries for a competition to write an opening address for London's rebuilt Drury Lane Theatre. Each piece mimics a different author's distinctive style, targeting literary figures like Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Scott. The work became an immediate popular success and inspired numerous imitations. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3769 ER -