Comic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375413545 ISBN 13: 9780375413544

Verlag: Everymans Library, 2001

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This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets–from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W. H. Auden–and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse.

Comic Poems is studded with unforgettable classics, along with lesser-known comic gems from across the ages, from ancient Rome to modern America. Here is the immortal “How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear” beside Noël Coward’s “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”; the incomparable “Jabberwocky” next to the famous “There was a young lady of Riga.” From Cole Porter and John Updike on love and marriage to Stevie Smith and Dorothy Parker on mortality to the ever-talented Anonymous on almost anything, the lighthearted poetry collected here ranges from the most delightful nonsense to the most sophisticated wit.

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Peter Washington is the author of Madame Blavatsky's Baboon. He is the editor of several Everyman's Library Pocket Poet anthologies including Love Poems and Friendship Poems.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Everymans Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0375413545
• ISBN 13: 9780375413544
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 249
• Herausgeber: Washington Peter
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