Oxford Book of Comic Verse

Zusatztext it is hard to voice any complaint whatever about an anthology so replete with riches - one! moreover! upholding the idea of humour as a by-product of an idiosyncratic vision! with ease-of-manner resulting from a cast-iron control ... True comic verse! as we find here! is always inseparable from comic verve. Informationen zum Autor John Gross is a writer and reviewer. He was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, on the staff of the New York Times from 1983 to 1988, and theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph from 1998 to 2005. His books include The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters (1969; new edn 1991), Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy (1992), and a memoir A Double Thread (2002). He has edited the Oxford Books of Aphorisms (1983), Essays (1991), and Literary Anecdotes (2006), and The New Oxford Book of English Prose (1998). His most recent anthology is After Shakespeare (2002). Klappentext A wide-ranging anthology of comic verse including epigrams! street ballads! clerihews! limericks! advertising jingles! as well as the classic writers of comic verse! from Chaucer to Ogden Nash and beyond. Zusammenfassung A wide-ranging anthology of comic verse including epigrams, street ballads, clerihews, limericks, advertising jingles, as well as the classic writers of comic verse, from Chaucer to Ogden Nash and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

Product details

• Authors: John Gross, John J. Gross
• Assisted by: John Gross (Editor), Gross John (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 19.03.2009
• EAN: 9780199561612
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956161-2
• No. of pages: 558
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 30 mm
• Series: Oxford Books of Verse; Oxford Books of Prose & Verse; Oxford Books of Prose & Verse
• Subjects: Fiction > Comic, cartoon, humour, satire; POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Poetry anthologies (various poets), Poetry / Poems