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    London Lyrics
    London Lyrics
    London Lyrics
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    London Lyrics

    By A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley, Frederick Locker-Lampson and George Cruikshank

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      London Lyrics - A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, London Lyrics, by Frederick Locker, Edited by

      A. D. Godley, Illustrated by George Cruikshank

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: London Lyrics

      Author: Frederick Locker

      Editor: A. D. Godley

      Release Date: October 5, 2009 [eBook #30185]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LONDON LYRICS***

      Transcribed from the 1904 Methuen & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

      LONDON

      LYRICS

      By FREDERICK LOCKER

      WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES

      By A. D. GODLEY

      WITH A FRONTISPIECE

      By GEORGE CRUIKSHANK

      london

      METHUEN & CO.

      36 essex street, w. c.

      mdcccciv

      INTRODUCTION

      The father of Frederick Locker Lampson (or Frederick Locker, according to the name by which he is generally known) was Edward Hawke Locker, at one time Commissioner of Greenwich Hospital.  He is described in the Dictionary of National Biography as a man of varied talents and accomplishments, Fellow of the Royal Society, an excellent artist in water-colour, a charming conversationalist, an esteemed friend of Southey and Scott.  Frederick, the author of London Lyrics, was born, Mr Augustine Birrell, his son-in-law, writes in Scribner’s Magazine (January 1896), in Greenwich Hospital in 1821.  After divers adventures in various not over well selected schools, and a brief experience of the City and of Somerset House, he became a clerk in the Admiralty, serving under Lord Haddington, Sir James Graham, and Sir Charles Wood.  He was twice married—first, to Lady Charlotte Bruce, a daughter of Lord Elgin (of the Marbles); and secondly, to the only daughter of Sir Curtis Lampson, Bart., of Rowfant in Sussex.

      The present volume is Locker’s earliest literary venture; produced, however, at the comparatively mature age of thirty-six.  In 1857, he says in My Confidences, I published a thin volume—certain sparrow-flights of song, called ‘London Lyrics.’  Subsequently, about 1860, Thackeray, who was then editor of the Cornhill Magazine, invited Locker to contribute; and poems published there and elsewhere were collected and reprinted from time to time, the original title being always retained.  Ten editions, besides some selections privately printed, appeared before the poet’s death.  In almost all something new was added, in all something old was taken away; so that only eight of the twenty-five pieces composing the early thin volume survive in the issue of 1893, and some of these are much altered.  It is hoped that readers of Locker’s later and more highly finished work will consider a republication of his Primitiæ justified by the interest which attaches to all beginnings.

      So many people even now confuse minor poetry with bad poetry that it is almost invidious to call a poet minor.  Yet there is no doubt that minor poetry can be good in its way, just as major poetry can be good in its way.  If he [Locker] was a minor poet he was at least [why ‘at least’?] a master of the instrument he touched, which cannot, writes Mr Coulson Kernahan in the Nineteenth Century for October 1895, "be said of all who would be accounted major.  Locker was not of those, in his own opinion, who would be accounted major.  My aim, he says, was humble.  I used the ordinary metres and rhymes, the simplest language and ideas, I

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