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Book The First Clerihews

Download or read book The First Clerihews written by Edmund Clerihew Bentley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Complete Clerihews

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. C. Bentley
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2008-01-12
  • ISBN : 0755116054
  • Pages : 183 pages

Download or read book The Complete Clerihews written by E. C. Bentley and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2008-01-12 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edmund Clerihew Bentley published a volume of nonsense verse designed to poke fun at distinguished personalities. Illustrated by Bentley's lifelong friend, eminent critic and author G K Chesterton, they were known as 'clerihews' and became as popular as the limerick form. In 'Complete Clerihews' the entire collection is presented.

Book Biography for Beginners

    Book Details:
  • Author : E C 1875-1956 Bentley
  • Publisher : Franklin Classics
  • Release : 2018-10-12
  • ISBN : 9780342626045
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book Biography for Beginners written by E C 1875-1956 Bentley and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 98 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 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. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Woman in Black

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clerihew Bentle Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  • Publisher : 1st World Publishing
  • Release : 2007-12
  • ISBN : 1421896389
  • Pages : 236 pages

Download or read book The Woman in Black written by Clerihew Bentle Edmund Clerihew Bentley and published by 1st World Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely? When the scheming, indomitable brain of Sigsbee Manderson was scattered by a shot from an unknown hand, that world lost nothing worth a single tear; it gained something memorable in a harsh reminder of the vanity of such wealth as this dead man had piled up-without making one loyal friend to mourn him, without doing an act that could help his memory to the least honor. But when the news of his end came, it seemed to those living in the great vortices of business as if the earth, too, shuddered under a blow. In all the lurid commercial history of his country there had been no figure that had so imposed itself upon the mind of the trading world. He had a niche apart in its temples.

Book Poetry of the Law

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  • Author : David Kader
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2010-03-15
  • ISBN : 158729866X
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Poetry of the Law written by David Kader and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors Include: W.H. Auden, Robert Burns, Lewis Carroll, John Ciardi, Daniel Defoe, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Rita Dove, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Martín Espada, Thomas Hardy, Seamus Heaney, A.E. Housman, Langston Hughes, Ben Jonson, X.J. Kennedy, Yusef Komunyakaa, Ted Kooser, D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Lee Masters, W.S. Merwin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sir Walter Raleigh, Muriel Rukeyser, Carl Sandburg, William Shakespeare, Jonathan Swift, Mona Van Duyn, Oscar Wilde, William Carlos Williams.

Book Trent s Last Case

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  • Author : E. C. Bentley
  • Publisher : House of Stratus
  • Release : 2001-05-30
  • ISBN : 075511583X
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Trent s Last Case written by E. C. Bentley and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2001-05-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scheming American capitalist is found dead in the garden of his country house. Why is the dead man not wearing his false teeth and why is his young widow seemingly relieved at his death? 'The Lady in Black', has a disarming effect on the refreshingly fallible and imaginative Trent, in this classic detective story that twists and turns.

Book Golf Course of Rhymes

Download or read book Golf Course of Rhymes written by Leon White and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with the help of golfing poets such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, Charles “Chick” Evans, Grantland Rice and Billy Collins. Laid out as a golf course with Holes (chapters) such as “St. Andrews,” “Agonies and Frustrations,” “Advice,” “Politics and War,” “Links with the Devil” and “The Women’s Game.” Illustrated with pictures, cartoons and photographs. The text and poems include humorous tales, historical dramas and personal accounts that will touch the hearts of golfers universally. Much of the material comes from inaccessible books and magazines published in the U.S., England and Scotland before 1930.

Book For the Love of Language

Download or read book For the Love of Language written by Nancy Lee Cecil and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberta authorized teaching resource for English Language Arts, grades K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1998-

Book Presidential Misadventures

Download or read book Presidential Misadventures written by Bob Raczka and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A book of poetry about the presidents written in clerihews"--

Book Brief Candles

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  • Author : Henry Taylor
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9780807125632
  • Pages : 66 pages

Download or read book Brief Candles written by Henry Taylor and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not since W. H. Auden's Academic Graffiti has a poet of serious substance indulged so thoroughly in clerihews, those miniature (and often outrageously fictional) biographies invented just over 100 years ago by E. C. Bentley (1875-1956). In Brief Candles, Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Taylor takes on with hilarious irreverence people usually taken most seriously -- members of the Supreme Court, poets laureate, literary theorists, Whitewater celebrities, and New Testament figures -- demonstrating through 101 clerihews that one of the primary purposes of poetry is to have fun, even while craftsmanship remains paramount. Taylor's shimmering wit and resourceful use of rhyme combine with whimsical illustrations by Heather Alexander to make these tiny, playful pieces a rare treat for all readers. We learn the rules quickly enough (the form demands a beginning with a proper name and then a rhymed surprise or payoff), and read with delight such quick riffs as: Antonin Scalia likes to sing "The Rose of Tralee" -- a treat for all students of his jurisprudence. and Friedrich Nietzsche strove vainly to reach a steadfast decision between Apollonian and Dionysian. In times of tribulation, we can read the Book of Lamentations, or the Psalms, or just as likely, Henry Taylor's clerihews. They are, as he calls them, Brief Candles, but they do give a satisfying light.

Book Homage to Clio

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
  • Publisher : London : Faber and Faber
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book Homage to Clio written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by London : Faber and Faber. This book was released on 1960 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems sepatated into two parts by an interlude in prose "Dichtung und Wahrheit". Also includes some "Academic graffiti", clerihews, limericks & a poem specially composed to celebrate the eightieth birthday of Dr. Claude Jenkins.

Book Clerihew

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jessica Ashworth
  • Publisher : Teaching and Learning Company
  • Release : 2012-09-01
  • ISBN : 0787730475
  • Pages : 8 pages

Download or read book Clerihew written by Jessica Ashworth and published by Teaching and Learning Company. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bring your students’ poetry-writing skills into full bloom with this exciting packet! These exercises will introduce early learners to clerihew, and allow them opportunities to write their own. Each poem is complemented by a leveled reproducible activity that reinforces newly learned skills and techniques. Extension activities keep the learning going both inside and outside the classroom.

Book On Feeble Love and Bitter Love

Download or read book On Feeble Love and Bitter Love written by Tristan Tzara and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation/ annihillation of Tristan Tzara's dada manifesto on occasion of Dada World Fair held by City Lights Books in San Francisco during the first 13 days of November, 2016.

Book Solving the World s Problems

Download or read book Solving the World s Problems written by Robert Lee Brewer and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "World" in Robert Lee Brewer's Solving the World's Problems is a slippery world ... where chaos always hovers near, where we are (and should be) "splashing around in dark puddles." And one feels a bit dizzy reading these poems because (while always clear, always full of meaning) they come at reality slantwise so that nothing is quite the same and the reader comes away with a new way of looking at the ordinary objects and events of life. The poems are brim-full of surprises and delights, twists in the language, double-meanings of words, leaps of thought and imagination, interesting line-breaks. There are love and relationship poems, dream poems, poems of life in the modern world. And always the sense (as he writes) of "pulling the world closer to me/leaves falling to the ground/ birds flying south." I read these once, twice with great enjoyment. I will go back to them often. -Patricia Fargnoli, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Then, Something

Book The Film Sense

Download or read book The Film Sense written by Sergei Eisenstein and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1947 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned Soviet director discusses his theory of film as an artistic medium which must appeal to all senses and applies it to an analysis of sequences from his major movies.

Book Jolly Good Detecting

Download or read book Jolly Good Detecting written by Bruce Shaw and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an appreciation of selected authors who make extensive use of humor in English detective/crime fiction. Works using humor as an amelioration of the serious have their heyday in the Golden Age of crime writing but they belong also to a long tradition. There is an identifiable lineage of humorous writing in crime fiction that ranges from mild wit to outright farce, burlesque, even slapstick. A mix of entertainment with instruction is a tradition in English letters. English crime fiction writers of the era circa 1913 to 1940 were raised in the mainstream literary tradition but turned their skills to detective fiction. And they are the humorists of the genre. This book is not an exhaustive study but an introduction into the best produced by the most capable and enjoyable authors. What the humorists seek is to surprise the reader by overturning their expectations using a repertoire of stylistic conceits and motifs (recurring incidents, devices, references). Humor has a liberating effect but is concerned too with "comic contrast" through ugliness and caricature. In crime fiction one effect is intellectual pleasure at solving (or attempting to solve) a puzzle. Another is entertainment but with serious undertones.

Book How to Write Poetry

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul B. Janeczko
  • Publisher : Turtleback Books
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780613357296
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book How to Write Poetry written by Paul B. Janeczko and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning poet and anthologist provides a versatile guide for young readers and offers concrete advice that will help them express themselves through poetry.