Download or read book Humorous poems by English and American writers written by William Michael Rossetti and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humorous Poems by English and American Writers written by and published by London, Ward, Lock & Company [1878?]. This book was released on 1878 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humorous poems by English and American writers Carefully compiled and edited with brief biographies of the authors written by Poems and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Humorous Poems by English and American Writers Carefully Compiled and Edited with Brief Biographies of the Authors Scholar s Choice Edition written by Anonymous and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-15 with total page 512 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 A Treasury of Humorous Poetry written by Frederic Lawrence Knowles and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Humorous Poetry of the English Language from Chaucer to Saxe written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humor in Modern American Poetry written by Rachel Trousdale and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing. But as Humor in Modern American Poetry shows, modern poetry is full of humorous moments, from comic verse published in popular magazines to the absurd juxtapositions of The Cantos. The essays in this collection show that humor is as essential to the serious work of William Carlos Williams as it is to the light verse of Phyllis McGinley. For the writers in this volume, the point of humor is not to provide “comic relief,” a brief counterpoint to the poem's more serious themes; humor is central to the poems' projects. These poets use humor to claim their own poetic authority; to re-define literary tradition; to show what audience they are writing for; to make political attacks; and, perhaps most surprisingly, to promote sympathy among their readers. The essays in this book include single-author studies, discussions of literary circles, and theories of form. Taken together, they help to begin a new conversation about modernist poetry, one that treats its lighthearted moments not as decorative but as substantive. Humor defines groups and marks social boundaries, but it also leads us to transgress those boundaries; it forges ties between the writer and the reader, blurs the line between public and private, and becomes a spur to self-awareness.
Download or read book A Treasury of Humorous Poetry written by Frederic Lawrence Knowles and published by Boston : Dana Estes. This book was released on 1902 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seriously Funny written by Barbara Hamby and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the midst of terrible darkness. Most of the selections were made in the editors' battered compact car, otherwise known as the Seriously Funny Mobile Unit. During the two years in which Barbara Hamby and David Kirby made their choices, they'd set out with a couple of boxes of books in the back seat, and whoever wasn't driving read to the other. When they found that a poem made both of them think but laugh as well, they earmarked it. Readers will find a true generosity in these poems, an eagerness to share ideas and emotions and also to entertain. The singer Ali Farka Tour said that honey is never good when it's only in one mouth, and the editors of Seriously Funny hope its readers find much to share with others.
Download or read book The Fireside Book of Humorous Poetry written by William Cole and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1959 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than 450 English and American humorous poems including nonsense verse, fantasy, parody, and zany improvisations. Among the writers represented are Ogden Nash, Don Marquis, Lewis Carroll, Hilaire Belloc, John Updike, Samuel Hoffenstein, Edward Lear, and Olver Herford.
Download or read book The Humorous Poetry of the English Language written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Humor Empathy and Community in Twentieth Century American Poetry written by Rachel Trousdale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers. For poets slightly outside of the literary or social mainstream, humor encourages mutual understanding and empathic insight among artist, audience, and subject. As a result, laughter helps poets reframe and reject literary, political, and discursive hierarchies—whether to overturn those hierarchies, or to place themselves at the top. While theorists like Freud and Bergson argue that laughter patrols and maintains the boundary between in-group and out-group, this volume shows how laughter helps us cross or re-draw those boundaries. Poets who practice such constructive humor promote a more democratic approach to laughter. Humor reveals their beliefs about their audiences and their attitudes toward the Romantic notion that poets are exceptional figures. When poets use humor to promote empathy, they suggest that poetry's ethical function is tied to its structure: empathy, humor, and poetry identify shared patterns among apparently disparate objects. This book explores a broad range of serious approaches to laughter: the inclusive, community-building humor of W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore; the self-aggrandizing humor of Ezra Pound; the self-critical humor of T. S. Eliot; Sterling Brown's antihierarchical comedy; Elizabeth Bishop's attempts to balance mockery with sympathy; and the comic epistemologies of Lucille Clifton, Stephanie Burt, Cathy Park Hong, and other contemporary poets. It charts a developing poetics of laughter in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, showing how humor can be deployed to embrace, to exclude, and to transform.
Download or read book Kids Pick The Funniest Poems written by Bruce Lansky and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betcha laugh! This is one of the most popular collections of funny poetry for kids ever published. It's a classic because it's the first collection of poems selected by kids! It includes clever creations from some of the most popular names in children's poetry, including Bill Dodds, Timothy Tocher, Joyce Armor, Robert Pottle, Bruce Lansky, and Kenn Nesbitt. Humorous illustrations by Stephen Carpenter make this book even better.
Download or read book The Humorous Poetry of the English Language written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nonsense Poems written by Edward Lear and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of nonsense verses, many beginning "There was an old man . . " or "There was a young lady . . ."
Download or read book Parodies of the Works of English American Authors written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
