| Description |
3-400 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
E.E. Cummings -- Clarence Day -- A. de Morgan -- Charles Dibdin -- Lawrence Durrell -- T.S. Eliot -- William Empson -- D.J. Enright -- A brewer -- A dentist -- Andrew Gear of Sunderland -- At Aberdeen -- At Great Torrington -- At Hadleigh, Suffolk -- At Leeds -- At Pottorned, Wilshire -- At Upton-on-Severn -- In St Olave's, Southwark -- John Bun -- Johnny Dow -- Mary Ann -- Richard Hind -- Will Smith -- Lord Thomas Erskine -- Abel Evans -- Gavin Ewart -- Marjory Fleming -- Samuel Foote -- Colin Francis -- J.H. Frere -- Robert Frost -- David Garrick -- John Gay -- Sir W.S. Gilbert -- A.D. Godley -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Harry Graham -- Robert Graves -- John Gray -- Thomas Gray -- G. Rostrevor Hamilton -- Thomas Hardy -- Sir John Harington -- Bret Harte -- Master Heath -- W.E. Henley -- John Heywood -- A.C. Hilton -- Samuel Hoffenstein -- James Hogg -- Thomas Hood -- G.M. Hopkins -- A.E. Housman -- Thomas Hughes -- Christopher Iserwodd -- Sir Hilderbrand Jacob -- Richard Jago -- Lord Francis Jeffrey Jeffrey -- C.E.M. Joad -- Samuel Johnson -- John Keats -- B.H. Kennedy -- Benjamin Franklin King -- Hugh Kingsmill -- Rudyard Kipling -- Mgr. R.A. Knox -- Charles Lamb -- Osbert Lancaster -- W.S. Landor -- Andrew Lang -- Lord George Granville Lansdowne -- Walter Leaf -- Edward Lear -- H.S. Leigh -- C.C. Leland -- D.B.W. Lewis -- Determinism -- Mendelian theory -- Mind and matter -- Relativity -- Reply to idealism -- The curate of Salisbury -- The old man of Boulogne -- The old man of Cape Race -- The old party of Lyme -- The pelican -- The young lady of Riga -- The young lady of Spain -- The young man of Japan -- The young man of Quebec -- The young man of St Bees -- T. Lindsay -- Huch MacDiarmid (C.M. Grieve) -- W.L. Mansel -- Don Marquis -- Sir Theodore Martin -- James Clerk Maxwell -- G.K. Menzies -- Owen Meredith (Edward Rovert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of Lytton) -- Thomas Moore -- Edwin Morgan -- James Appleton Morgan -- J.B. Morton -- Robert Murray -- Ogden Nash |
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Lord Charles Neaves Neaves -- R.H. Newell -- George Outram -- Edward Henry Palmer -- Dorothy Parker -- Henry Parrot -- T.L. Peacock -- William Plomer -- Alexander Pope -- Richard Porson -- Peter Porter -- Ezra Pound -- W.M. Praed -- Matthew Prior -- Sir Walter Raleight -- Henry Reed -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester -- Sir George Rose -- Warham St Leger -- C.P. Sawyer -- P.B. Shelley -- Sir Arthur Shipley -- P.N. Shuttleworth -- W.W. Skeat -- Horace Smith -- James Smith -- Sir George Rose -- Naomi Royde Smith -- Stevie Smith -- Robert Southey -- Sir John Squire -- J.K. STephen -- James Stephens -- L.A.G. Strong -- Jonathan Swift -- A.C. Swinburne -- J.M. Synge -- Bayard Taylor -- Lord Alfred Tennyson -- W.M. Thackeray -- D, Arcy W. Thompson -- Anne Tibble -- H.D. Traill -- Joseph Trapp -- John Updike -- Alaric A. Watts -- E.B. White -- Rev. Cornelius Whur -- Douglas Young -- Edward Young |
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Max Adeler (C.H. Clark) -- Canon Alfred Ainger -- Henry Aldrich -- Kingsley Amis -- A woman is a worthy thing -- Bring us in good ale -- Carol -- Fara diddle dyno -- How the first Heilandman was made -- On Cardinal Wolsey -- The bewties of the fute-ball -- The wife who would a wanton be -- All things have savour -- Hye nonny nonny noe -- If all the world were paper -- Odd but true -- From The song of Anarchus -- Sweet slug-a-bed -- From The downfall of Charing Cross -- The man in the wilderness -- In the dumps -- On a clergyman's horse biting him -- On Dr Isaac Letsome -- On Lord Chesterfield and his son -- On inclosures -- On Prince Frederick -- On the new laureate -- Rondeau -- The auld seceder cat -- The man of Thessaly -- A Girtonian funeral -- A strike among the poets -- An unexpected pleasure -- Boston -- Ech, sic a pairish -- Eighteen-forty-three -- Epigram on Sir Roger Phillimore -- I have no pain -- On T. Moore's poems -- On Thomas, second Earl of Onslow -- She was poor, but she was honest -- Sonnet found in a deserted mad-house -- The American Indian -- The crimes of Lizzie Borden -- The modern Hiawatha -- The rain -- A case -- The rabbit -- To be or not to be -- Jacob Epstein -- Lloyd George -- Richard Pepper Arden, Baron Alvanley -- W.H. Auden -- W.E. Aytoun -- Balliol Rhymes -- Rev. R.H. Barham -- Jane Barker -- James Beattie -- James Hay Beattie -- Max Beerbohm -- Hilaire Belloc -- E.C. Bentley -- John Betjeman -- Isaac Bickerstaff -- William Blake -- Countess Marguerite Power Blessington -- James Bramston -- W. Bridges-Adams -- Shirley Brooks -- Thomas Brown -- Sir William Browne -- Robert Browning -- Anthony Burgess -- Frank Gelett Burgess -- Robert Burns -- Samuel Butler -- John Byrom -- George Gordon Lord Byron -- C.S. Calverley -- Roy Campbell -- George Canning -- J.H. Frere -- Lewis Carroll -- Charles Causley -- G.K. Chesterton -- Charles Churchill -- A.H. Clough -- Hartley Coleridge -- S.T. Coleridge -- R. Southey -- Mortimer Collins -- W. Congreve -- Leonard Cooper |
| Summary |
This collection appearing for the first time as a paperback, covers the whole field of English comic verse, including nonsense, parody and comic satire, but excluding what is usually called "light verse" of vers de societe |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Originally published in 1942 |
| Subject |
English poetry.
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English wit and humor.
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Humorous poetry, English.
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| Author |
Smith, Janet Adam.
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| LC no. |
75300992 |
| ISBN |
0571048331 |
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