Download or read book The Wordsworth Book of Limericks written by Linda Marsh and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of more than 1,800 comical limericks.
Download or read book A Child s Book of Poems written by and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood.
Download or read book The Lure of the Limerick written by William Stuart Baring-Gould and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lure of the Limerick written by William Stuart Baring-Gould and published by Clarkson Potter Publishers. This book was released on 1988-12-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Book of Limericks 1888 written by Edward Lear and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book The Little Blue Book of Limericks written by Kevin Lucas and published by Temptation Press. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 3,000 limericks in his repertoire, Kevin Lucas chose to share some of his more salacious works with you in The Little Blue Book of Limericks. Webster's Dictionary defines a limerick as: "a light or humorous verse form of five ... lines"
Download or read book London written by Mark Ford and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called "the flour of Cities all," London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Now poet Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. Nearly all of the major poets of British literature have left some poetic record of London: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Keats, Byron, and T. S. Eliot. Ford goes well beyond these figures, however, to gather significant verse of all kinds, from Jacobean city comedies to nursery rhymes, from topical satire to anonymous ballads. The result is a cultural history of the city in verse, one that represents all classes of London's population over some seven centuries, mingling the high and low, the elegant and the salacious, the courtly and the street smart. Many of the poems respond to large events in the city's history--the beheading of Charles I, the Great Fire, the Blitz--but the majority reflect the quieter routines and anxieties of everyday life through the centuries. Ford's selections are arranged chronologically, thus preserving a sense of the strata of the capital's history. An introductory essay by the poet explores in detail the cultural, political, and aesthetic significance of the verse inspired by this great city. The result is a volume as rich and vibrant and diverse as London itself.
Download or read book A Child s Introduction to Poetry Revised and Updated written by Michael Driscoll and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightful, interactive journey through the history of the world's poetry now includes a removable poster and access to downloadable audio, allowing kids to listen and learn as they experience the magic of the spoken word. Poetry can be fun -- especially when we can read it, hear it, and discover its many delights. A Child's Introduction to Poetry joyously introduces kids (and parents) to the greatest poets in history -- from Homer and Shakespeare to Langston Hughes and Maya Angelou -- and provides excellent examples of their work and commentary on what makes it so special and everlasting. The book covers every style of poem, from epics and odes, to nonsense verse and haikus, and is filled with examples of each one. This multimedia package encourages children to listen, read, and learn, and opens the door to a lifetime of appreciation of a rich literary tradition. Also included is a removable, fold-out poster of "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll, one of history's most iconic poems.
Download or read book What Is a Limerick written by Jonathan Bryant Dean and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Torch Carrier is a memoir of a young widower. Antonio who after losing his wife and high school sweetheart Cynthia to Breast Cancer, turns to his journal and nightly dreams about his wife to find solace in his newly transparent existence. When the B side to his new life as a widower (Single and Available) forces him to address this status it is Cynthia who helps guide him through his emotional awkwardness of starting over as he turns to pen and pad to secure a relationship with an old friend. It is this woman Nereida who possesses the qualities he prayed for, so Antonio tries to convince Nereida that they were meant to be. The problem? He's not ready for an intimate relationship, and Nereida has just become available. Antonio knows she won't be on the market whenever he does become ready, so he leaps forward hoping his instincts are right even if the rest of his life isn't. Through letters and poems he regains his identity as a person and man while juggling his pining emotions for his wife as he finds the balance in his heart and a new appreciation for love the second time around.
Download or read book Some Limericks written by Norman Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book If the Owl Calls Again written by Myra Cohn Livingston and published by Margaret K. McElderry Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems about owls by many different authors.
Download or read book Very Bad Poetry written by Kathryn Petras and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1997-03-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
Download or read book One Thousand and One Limericks written by Rosemary Gray and published by Collector's Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scintillating anthology has over 1,000 limericks - clean, dirty, filthy and obscene. It contains limericks historical, geographical, wistful, whimsical, clerical and medical - and almost all of them fantastical.
Download or read book The Art of the Limerick written by Cyril Bibby and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1978 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis written by Wendy Cope and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets. There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead. (from 'Rondeau Redoublé')
Download or read book 100 Great Poems for Girls written by Celia Johnson and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading any great poem for the first time is always a thrilling discovery, even if it's only four lines long, and this collection brings together some of the best ever to read, memorize, or recite. Girls of all ages will enjoy reading poems catered specifically to them, whether it means envisioning adventures with princesses and witches, or laughing at the antics of mischievous little girls. The book is divided into eight sections: Nature, Imagination, Love & Friendship, Inspiration, Animals, Nursery Rhymes, Limericks & Tongue Twisters, and Fun & Nonsense. 100 GREAT POEMS FOR GIRLS is a perfect introduction for those encountering poetry for the first time, but readers who grew up with poems will also cherish this treasury of classics.
Download or read book Cairo in Chicago written by Istvan Ormos and published by IFAO. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built as a temporary structure and made of ephemeral materials, "Cairo Street" had a dual nature. On the one hand it was a purely scientific installation, a piece of anthropology. On the other, it became the most popular entertainment venue at the World's Columbian Exposition of Chicago (1893), a place where "people went wild with excitement". Far from being a copy of any actual street, it was an assemblage of authentic architectural elements put together in such a way as to conjure up the atmosphere of the Arab-Islamic metropolis, the city of the Thousand and One Nights. Its impact was greatly enhanced by the presence of local Cairo inhabitants, who plied their trade, some of them with their camels, donkeys, monkeys, and even snakes. The belly dancing on Cairo Street caused an enormous stir: many claimed that it was immoral and called for its immediate suspension; others regarded it as a performance of important scientific and ethnological value. It was never suspended-and people flocked to see it. An immense amount has been written about world's fairs. This monograph represents a novel approach in that it subjects a single project, the Cairo Street, to detailed analysis, placing particular emphasis on interpreting it within the context of the Fair as a whole. What was the great uproar about the belly dancing? What motivated it? In order to answer these questions, this monograph attempts to offer a complex, multi-faceted, interpretation within the context of the society of the time. Cairo Street was the sensation of the World's Columbian Exposition, a fair which many sold their stoves, mortgaged their houses, spent their life savings or their funeral money to see. This monograph is enhanced with a ground plan and 168 illustrations.
