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    The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
    The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
    The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
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    The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

    By George Cruikshank, William Makepeace Thackeray and Charles Dickens

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1969
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      This is the nineteenth-century version of one of those bloated, soulless, overproduced rock dinosaur collaborations that were big in the 1980s: "Ebony and Ivory," or even better, David Bowie and Mick Jagger's version of "Dancing in the Street." Dickens, Thackeray, and Cruikshank got their usual table at the Black Bear in Piccadilly, did a bunch of blow, and rewrote a cute, picturesque and slightly picaresque traditional ballad and slapped each other on the back and thought they were just kings of comedy man, and everyone sitting nearby rolled their eyes like "fucking douchebag celebrities, let's go to the Prospect of Whitby." The ballad itself is hardly altered--a few smarmy touches of haw-haw upper-class eye-dialect (the lowest form of humour) added I assume by Thackeray, who was better at that sort of thing than Dickens (when the latter does it it always reads like a crutch, like a Robin Williamsesque way of making a character memorable, but Thack did at least have an ear); Dickens's "notes," which aspire to a parody of criticism (the joke being that ha ha can you imagine writing about this low trash like it were e.g. the exquisite lyrics of Thomas Gray), come across as insufferably self-satisfied; and I don't know much about Cruikshank but here he does not come off like the "modern Hogarth" of popular purport--this is more sub-Groo the Wanderer stuff. I give it credit for being an oddity and that is all.

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    Title: The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

    Author: Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray

    Release Date: April 14, 2005 [eBook #15618]

    Language: English

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    ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN***

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    THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN.

    ILLUSTRATED BY

    GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.

    LONDON:

    CHARLES TILT, FLEET STREET.

    AND MUSTAPHA SYRIED, CONSTANTINOPLE.

    MDCCCXXXIX.

    Warning to the Public

    CONCERNING

    THE LOVING BALLAD OF LORD BATEMAN.

    In some collection of old English Ballads there is an ancient ditty which I am told bears some remote and distant resemblance to the following Epic Poem. I beg to quote the emphatic language of my estimable friend (if he will allow me to call him so), the Black Bear in Piccadilly, and to assure all to whom these presents may come, that "I am the original." This affecting legend is given in the following pages precisely as I have frequently heard it sung on Saturday nights, outside a house of general refreshment (familiarly termed a wine vaults) at Battle-bridge. The singer is a young gentleman who can scarcely have numbered nineteen summers, and who before his last visit to the treadmill, where he was erroneously incarcerated for six months as a vagrant (being unfortunately mistaken for another gentleman), had a very melodious and plaintive tone of voice, which, though it is now somewhat impaired by gruel and such a

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