The Oxford Book of Comic Verse

The Oxford Book of Comic Verse
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 512
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ISBN-10 : 019284086X
ISBN-13 : 9780192840868
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Book of Comic Verse by : John Gross

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Comic Verse written by John Gross and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all for its breadth. It is truly international in scope, bringing together poets from far beyond the British Isles. Drawing on many different types of verse, from epigrams to street ballads, from clerihew to music-hall lyrics, from the double-dactyl of the calypso, it offers an exceptionally widerange of comic pleasures. The poems in this collection are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful; written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. The established classics of comic verse, writers such as Tom Hood, W. S. Gilbert, and Ogden Nash, are represented in force, but many unfamiliar or unexpected names are also included; so are many recent writers - the classics of the future. This collection undoubtedly contains matterof great historical interest, but the emphasis throughout is firmly on enjoyment.


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