Author: Wallace Rice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A Book of American Humorous Verse
Author: Wallace Rice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A Book of American Humorous Verse
Author: Wallace Rice
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A Book of American Humorous Verse
A Little Book of American Humorous Verse
The Oxford Book of Comic Verse
Author: John Gross
Publisher: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
ISBN: 9780199561612
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From limericks to social satire, The Oxford Book of Comic Verse offers a remarkable collection of outstanding light poetry. John Gross has brought together the finest writers in the history of the English language - from Chaucer and Skelton to Shakespeare and Swift, Lord Byron to Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson to John Updike, as well as witty song lyrics from such artists as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter - offering delightful examples of their comic verse. Drawing on many different types of verse, including epigrams, street ballads, advertising jingles, clerihew, music-hall lyrics, and the doubledactyl of the calypso, this highly entertaining collection offers an exceptionally wide range of comic pleasures. The poems are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful. Written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. Compiled by one of our finest critics and anthologists, this reissue boasts a stylish new design and a fresh contemporary feel.
Publisher: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
ISBN: 9780199561612
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From limericks to social satire, The Oxford Book of Comic Verse offers a remarkable collection of outstanding light poetry. John Gross has brought together the finest writers in the history of the English language - from Chaucer and Skelton to Shakespeare and Swift, Lord Byron to Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson to John Updike, as well as witty song lyrics from such artists as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter - offering delightful examples of their comic verse. Drawing on many different types of verse, including epigrams, street ballads, advertising jingles, clerihew, music-hall lyrics, and the doubledactyl of the calypso, this highly entertaining collection offers an exceptionally wide range of comic pleasures. The poems are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful. Written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. Compiled by one of our finest critics and anthologists, this reissue boasts a stylish new design and a fresh contemporary feel.
A Little Book of American Humorous Verse
Author: Thomas Augustine Daly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
American Humorous Verse
Author: Angus Evan Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The Book of Humorous Verse
American Humorous Verse
Author: James Barr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849503085
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849503085
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A Little Book of American Humorous Verse. Compiled by T.A. Daly
Author: Thomas Augustine DALY
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
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