Comic Poems

Author: Peter Washington (Editor)

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Price : $38.99 AUD
ISBN : 9780375413544
Publisher : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint : Everyman's Library
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Weight (g) : 0.231332
Publication date : 27 November 2001
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Author : Peter Washington (Editor)
Series : Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Ser.
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Language : English
Dewey classification : 808.81/7
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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 No l 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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