title: Wrotten English: A Celebration of Literary Misprints, Mistakes and Mishaps
author:  Peter Haining 
description: <div><div><B>Peter Haining</B> (1940&#150;2007)&#160;was best known as a prolific author and editor, having contributed to more than 170 publications in his lifetime. His titles include <I>Great Irish Tales of Horror</I>, <I>The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories</I>, <I>The Mammoth Book of True Hauntings</I>, and<I> Sweeney Todd</I>.</div></div>
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  # English Satires
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Edited by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE.
  
  
  INTRODUCTION.
  
  
  
  
  
  ENGLISH SATIRES.
  
  
    
  WILLIAM LANGLAND.
  
  
    
  GEOFFREY CHAUCER.
  
  
    
  JOHN LYDGATE.
  
  
    
  WILLIAM DUNBAR.
  
  
    
  SIR DAVID LYNDSAY.
  
  
    
  BISHOP JOSEPH HALL.
  
  
    
  GEORGE CHAPMAN.
  
  
    
  JOHN DONNE.
  
  
    
  BEN JONSON.
  
  
    
  SAMUEL BUTLER.
  
  
    
  ANDREW MARVELL.
  
  
    
  JOHN CLEIVELAND.
  
  
    
  JOHN DRYDEN.
  
  
    
  DANIEL DEFOE.
  
  
    
  THE EARL OF DORSET.
  
  
    
  JOHN ARBUTHNOT.
  
  
    
  JONATHAN SWIFT.
  
  
    
  SIR RICHARD STEELE.
  
  
    
  JOSEPH ADDISON.
  
  
    
  EDWARD YOUNG.
  
  
    
  JOHN GAY.
  
  
    
  ALEXANDER POPE.
  
  
    
  SAMUEL JOHNSON.
  
  
    
  OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
  
  
    
  CHARLES CHURCHILL.
  
  
    
  JUNIUS.
  
  
    
  ROBERT BURNS.
  
  
    
  CHARLES LAMB.
  
  
    
  THOMAS MOORE.
  
  
    
  GEORGE CANNING.
  
  
    
  POETRY OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN.
  
  
    
  COLERIDGE AND SOUTHEY.
  
  
    
  SYDNEY SMITH.
  
  
    
  JAMES SMITH.
  
  
    
  WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR.
  
  
    
  GEORGE, LORD BYR