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

 
9780375413544: Comic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375413545 ISBN 13: 9780375413544
Verlag: Everymans Library, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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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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