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Title The Oxford book of satirical verse / chosen by Geoffrey Grigson
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1980

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Description xviii, 454 pages ; 23 cm
Contents This varied collection of satirical verse contains 232 selections by writers from John Skelton and John Donne to Louis MacNeice and Clive James. Grigson -- a well-known poet and critic -- has chosen verse by John Dryden, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Charles Churchill, Joseph Hall, Samuel Butler, Ben Jonson, William Dunbar, David Lyndsay, Thomas Wyatt, William Rankins, John Cleveland, Charles Cotton, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, Charles Sedley, Charles Sackville, Alexander Radcliffe, John Oldham, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Garth, Thomas Brown, Matthew Prior, John Arbuthnot, John Winstanley, Edward Young, John Gay, William Diaper, Henry Carey, Richard Savage, Soame Jenyns, Samuel Johnson, Edward Moore, William Whitehead, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, Robert Lloyd, Evan Lloyd, John Wolcot, George Crabbe, William Blake, Robert Burns, Richard Porson, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Savage Landor, Thomas Moore, Ebenezer Elliott, Thomas Love Peacock, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Hood, Thomas Babington Macualay, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, James Russell Lowell, Arthur Hugh Clough, Lewis Carroll, W.S. Gilbert, A. E. Housman, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Lee Masters, Hilaire Belloc, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Stephen Crane, Max Beerbohm, G.K. Chesterton, Wyndham Lewis, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Siegfried Sasson, John Crowe Ransom, Robert Nichols, E.E. Cummings, Robert Graves, Edgell Rickword, Ernest Hemingway, Yvor Winters, Roy Campbell, Stevie Smith, Phyllis McGinley, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Gavin Ewart, D.J. Enright, Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Adrian Mitchell, JOhn Fuller, James Fenton, John Fuller and Lord Byron, and has included such classics as "Mac Flecknoe" and "Beppo." &#x000A
Summary A witty, entertaining anthology contains more than two hundred wickedly enjoyable little-known verse selections from such masters of satire as Dryden, Swift, Donne, Byron, Pope, Auden, and Cummings
Analysis Satirical poetry in English ca 1480-1979 Anthologies
Satirical poetry in English, ca 1480-1979 - Anthologies
Notes Includes indexes
Bibliography Bibliography: page
Notes Also issued online
Subject American poetry.
English poetry.
Satire, English.
Verse satire, American.
Verse satire, English.
Genre/Form Satirical literature.
Poetry.
Author Grigson, Geoffrey, 1905-1985.
LC no. 79041738
ISBN 0192141104
0192814257 (paperback)