Download or read book Prose and Verse written by Thomas Moore and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
Download or read book American Satire in Prose and Verse written by Henry Carlisle and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satirical pieces, classical and contemporary.
Download or read book A Treasury of Humorous Poetry written by Frederic Lawrence Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prose and Verse written by Thomas Moore and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Prose and Verse Humorous Satirical and Sentimental written by Richard Herne Shepherd and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Humorous Readings and Recitations in Prose and Verse written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Humorous Readings and Recitations, in Prose and Verse" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Prose and Verse written by Thomas Moore and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Prose and Verse: Humorous, Satirical, and Sentimental Would you change, my dear Tom, your old mode of proceeding, And make a dull end to a passage worth reading. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book PROSE VERSE HUMOROUS SATIRIC written by Thomas 1779-1852 Moore and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-28 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prose and Verse Humorous Satirical and Sentimental written by Thomas Moore and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Book of Satirical Verse written by Geoffrey Grigson and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A witty, entertaining anthology contains more than two hundred wickedly enjoyable little-known verse selections from such masters of satire as Dryden, Swift, Donne, Byron, Pope, Auden, and Cummings.
Download or read book Verse Satire in England Before the Renaissance written by Samuel Marion Tucker and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Satire and Satirists written by Hugh Walker and published by London and Toronto : J.M. Dent & sons lts ; New York : E. P. Dutton & Company. This book was released on 1925 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Verse Satire in England Before the Renaissance written by Samuel Marion Tucker and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the account of a conscientious student's explorations across a horrible great waste. We are more than grateful. It sets one's conscience finally to rest. Vicarious erudition is in some matters, we always knew, the only divine salvation of one's literary life! That way marked with bones of the dead, chiefly camels and asses, we shall not feel in duty bound to go unto perdition. But what commendable courage, what genius for the prolonged fast of the spirit, in the audacious and ascetic Dr. Tucker! Unless the comic spirit is restrained by a feeling for beauty, or at least, a sense of obligation to beautiful form, its products perish as they should; and elaborately to record and analyze them, is like insisting on a resurrection en masse here and now of the mediocre millions well dead and duly replaced. Only a thing of beauty is a joy forever, and hence it chances that nothing is so likely to make one perish of self-pity or snort with rage as obsolete righteous indignation, and elaborate efforts at satiric laughter preserved in doggerel, or, worse yet, would-be heroic verse! A great reverence for the comic has made us welcome this study by Dr. Tucker for its sane critical perspective and scholarly frankness. The introductory chapter is an essay of no mean value. The table in which Dr. Tucker endeavors to classify the world's comic literature may leave out such things as Hugo's Chatiments ox Heine's Atta Troll and the "North Sea" poems; but it is nevertheless suggestive. Making the law of conception and the method of comic procedure subordinate, for purpose of classification, to the often extraneous distinction of verse and prose (so that things spiritually akin are artificially sundered by a great gulf, and things unakin are forced by the token of doggerel rhyme to feign close affinity), would seem an insurmountable obstacle were the author to attempt a sympathetic judgment of artistic satire. But, that Dr. Tucker is nowise the victim of his erudition,- the kind that earns honors these days, but must straightway be got out of the system in a thesis, or slay its proud but unfortunate possessor, - is evinced by the altogether delightful treatment accorded Chaucer as a satirist and humorist. Nothing could more startlingly manifest Chaucer's strangeness to the evolution considered in the whole study, than the character of the score of pages dealing with our one great satiric poet before Shakespeare in his Troilus and Cressida and Measure for Measure. They bid us hope that now Dr. Tucker is emancipated from the odious necessity of being painfully erudite, having proved that he can be it, to the full satisfaction of all identifiers of dullness and scholarship, he may give us now studies of such satire as really constitutes literature, whether verse or prose, and help us to a worthier appreciation of such marvels of comic imaginative genius, for instance, as Swift, Fielding and Byron, not to mention many others; though only too few, all in all, we are disposed at times to fear, for the salvation of Anglo-Saxondom from the appalling solemnity which consecrates dullness, and the sentimentality that makes softness to be mistaken for the very hallmark of what is virtuous and holy. Can Dr. Tucker, now that he has chiefly warned us away from deserts, lead us into a few more oases like his Chaucer? -The Sewanee Review, Vol. 17
Download or read book Works Serious and Comical in Prose and Verse written by Thomas Brown and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes written by Harry Graham and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes" by Harry Graham is a wickedly clever and delightfully irreverent exploration of everyday life. Graham's razor-sharp wit and biting satire take aim at societal norms, hypocrisy, and human foibles, providing readers with a humorous and thought-provoking commentary on the absurdities of the world. With its playful and mischievous verses, this collection offers a whimsical escape and a refreshing perspective on the idiosyncrasies of modern life.
