| Description |
xxxiv, 347 pages ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Hibermia'The master, the swabber' / William Shakespeare -- On Giles and Joan / Ben Jonson -- 'Oh that my lungs' / Anonymous -- Hye Nonny Nonny Noe / Anonymous -- from Satire upon the Licentious Age of Charles II / Samuel Butler -- from Hudibras / Samuel Butler -- The Character of Holland / Andrew Marvell -- Three Children / Anonymous -- A Description of Maidenhead -- On Marriage / Thomas Flatman -- Song / John Wilmot -- The Disabled Debauchee / John Wilmot -- Impromptu on Charles II / John Wilmot -- from The True-Born Englishman / Daniel Defoe -- A Pindaric on the Grunting of a Hog / Samuel Wesley -- The Despairing Lover / William Walsh -- Daphne / Jonathan Swift -- from The Life and Character of Dean Swift / Jonathan Swift -- from Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift / Jonathan Swift -- A New Song of New Smiles / John Gay -- Drinking Song / Anonymous -- The Vicar of Bray / Anonymous -- We're All Dry / Anonymous -- from A Horrid and Barbarous Robbery / John Byrom -- Epigram / John Byrom -- Extempore Intended to Allay the Violence of Party-Spirit / John Byrom -- Four Epigrams on the Naturalization Bill / John Byrom -- Impromptu / Benjamin Franklin -- The Power of Music / Thomas Lisle -- Epigram,Ballad,Idyll / Samuel Johnson -- The Sow came in / Anonymous -- Trip upon Trenchers / Anonymous -- Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat / Thomas Gray -- On Prince Frederick / Anonymous -- Rub-a-dub-dub / Anonymous -- Tweedledum and Tweedledee / Anonymous -- Baby,Baby / Anonymous -- Ode to a Pig while his Nose was being Bored / Robert Elliott -- To a Goose / Robert Southey -- On Communists / Ebenezer Elliott -- Three Sonnets / Leigh Hunt -- Rich and Poor / Thomas Love Peacock -- The Night before Larry was Stretched / Anonymous -- In Peterborough Churchyard / Anonymous -- from Beppo / Lord Byron(George Gordon Noel) -- from Don Juan / Lord Byron(George Gordon Noel) -- Fragment / Lord Byron(George Gordon Noel) -- Wordsworth Unvisited / Hartley Coleridge -- Love,You've been a Villian / James Planche -- Ching a Ring / James Planche -- An Austrian Army / Alaric A Watts -- Faithless Sally Brown / Thomas Hood -- Faithless Nelly Gray / Thomas Hood -- To Minerva / Thomas Hood -- Mr and Mrs Vite's Journey / Anonymous -- A Maiden There Lived / Anonymous -- Arrivals at a Watering-Place / W.M.Praed -- Good Night to the Season / W.M.Praed -- A Letter of Advice / W.M.Praed -- Every-Day Characters:Portrait of a Lady / W.M.Praed -- The Talented Man / W.M.Praed -- Ode to the Human Heart / Laman Blanchard -- Hendecasyllabics / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Somebody / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Popular / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Aestivation / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Little Billee / W.M.Thackeray -- The Sorrows of Werther / W.M.Thackeray -- How Pleasant to Know / Edward Lear -- Limericks / Edward Lear -- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Robert Browning -- For A' That / Shirley Brooks -- To Disraeli / Shirley Brooks -- Our Photographs / Frederick Locker-Lampson -- Hans Breitmann's Barty / C.G.Leland -- Ballad by Hans Breitman / C.G.Leland -- I saw a Fishpond / Anonymous -- Companions, A Tale of a Grandfather / C.S. Calverley -- 'Forever' / C.S.Calverley -- The Schoolmaster Abroad with his Son / C.S.Calverley -- Lines on Hearing the Organ / C.S.Calverley -- In the Gloaming / C.S.Calverley -- from Dover to Munich / C.S.Calverley -- How Doth the Little Crocodile / Lewis Carroll -- You are old, Father William / Lewis Carroll -- 'Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!' / Lewis Carroll -- 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster / Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The Walrus and the Carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- The White Knight's Song / Lewis Carroll -- Hiawatha's Photographing / Lewis Carroll -- Rural Simplicity / H.J.Byron -- Tattle / Godfrey Turner -- The Journal of Society / Godfrey Turner -- The Darned Mounseer / W.S. Gilbert -- The Englishman / W.S. Gilbert -- The Modern Major-General / W.S. Gilbert -- The Policeman's Lot / W.S. Gilbert -- The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell' / W.S. Gilbert -- A Nightmare / W.S. Gilbert -- Rhymes(?) / Henry S. Leigh -- Plain Lanquage From Truthful James / Bret Harte -- Further Language from Truthful James / Bret Harte -- Dora versus Rose / Austin Dobson -- The Levelled Churchyard / Thomas Hardy -- The Ruined Maid / Thomas Hardy -- The Parterre / E.H. Palmer -- Brahma / Andrew Lang -- Triolet / Gerald Manley Hopkins -- Not I / R.L. Stevenson -- She was Poor but she was Honest / Anonymous -- The Heathen Pass-ee / A.C. Hilton -- After Horace / A.D. Godley -- The Motor Bus/ A.D. Godley -- Woman's Degrees/A.D. Godley -- On Parisian Boulevard/ J. K. Stephen -- On A Rhine Steamer/J. K. Stephen -- Drinking Song/J. K. Stephen -- Sincere Flattery/J. K. Stephen -- To R. K./J. K. Stephen -- A Sonet/J. K. Stephen -- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy/ A. E.Housman -- Occasional Poem/ A. E.Housman -- The Elephant, or The Force of Habit/ A. E.Housman -- Infant Innocence/ A. E.Housman -- The Song of Mr. Toad./Kenneth Grahame -- Balliol Rhymes/ H.C. Beeching ,C.A.Spring-Rice, Anonymous -- Gasbags/Anonymous -- The Tale of Lord Lovell/Anonymous -- The Ballad of William Bloat/Anonymous -- Wishes of an Elderly Man/Walter Raleigh -- A Birthday ode to Mr. Alfred Austin/ Owen Seaman -- Enland Expects?/Owen Seaman -- Aplea for Trigamy/Owen Seaman -- The Sitting Bard/Owen Seaman -- The Lie/ Rudy Kidling -- Canopus/B.L. Taylor -- On a General Election/ Hilaire Belloc -- Fatigue/Hilaire Belloc -- Lord Finchley/Hilaire Belloc -- The Yak/Hilaire Belloc -- From A Moral Alphabet/Hilaire Belloc -- Rebecca, who slammed doors for fun/Hilaire Belloc -- An Ode/ Anthony C. Deane -- The Cult of the Celtic/ Anthony C. Deane -- A luncheon/ Max Beerbohm -- A Luncheon/ Max Beerbohm -- Iron/ Walter De La Mare -- The Bards/ Walter De La Mare -- Triolet/ G.K. Chesterton -- Variations on an Air/G.K. Chesterton -- A Ballad of Abbreviations/G.K. Chesterton -- Antichrist, or the Reunion Of Christendom/G.K. Chesterton -- The Rolling English Road/G.K. Chesterton -- Departmental/ Robert Frost -- Clerihews/ C. Bentley -- Reminiscence/ Wallace Irwin -- To the God of Love/ E.V. Knox -- To William (whom We Have Missed)/ P. G. Wodehouse -- The Gourmet's Love-Song/ P. G. Wodehouse -- A Vision of Truth/ J. C. Squire -- Wagner/ Rupert Brooke -- Sonnet Reversed/ Rupert Brooke -- Macavity: The Mystery Cat/ T. S. Eliot -- Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat/T. S. Eliot -- cat Morgan Introduces Himself/T. S. Eliot -- Two Poems(after A.E. Housman)/ Hugh Kingsmill -- Limericks/ W.R. Inge, M.E Hare, R.A. Knox, Arthur Buller, Anonymous -- A Word of Encouragement/ J. R. Pope -- Lines for a Worthy Person/ A. P.Herbert -- Sapphics/ B. Wyndham Lewis -- The Dancing Cabman/ B. Morton -- The New Vicar of Bray/ Colin Ellis -- Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist/ Robert Graves -- Wm. Brazier/Robert Graves -- The Persian Version/Robert Graves -- Wellcome,to the Caves of Arta!/Robert Graves -- Wigs and Beards/Robert Graves -- A Memory/ L.A. G. Strong -- Evolutionary Hymn/ C. S. Lewis -- Mad Dogs and Englishman/ Noel Coward -- There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner/ Noel Coward -- On Some South African Novelists/ Roy Campbell -- Limericks/Anonymous -- Clerihew/Anonymous -- After Emerson/ Anonymous -- Hibermia / Stuart Howard-Jones -- Refections at Dawn/ Phyllis McGinley -- Caledonia / Anthony Powell -- In Wesminster Abbey / John Betjeman -- A Subaltern's Love-song / John Betjeman -- Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm / John Betjeman -- Pot Pourri From a Surrey Garden / John Betjeman -- How to get On in Society / John Betjeman -- Longfellow's Visit to Venice / John Betjeman -- Executive / John Betjeman -- Bagpipe Music/ Louis Macneice -- From Autumn journal/ Louis Macneice -- Uncle Henry/W.H. Auden -- The Unknown Citizen/W.H. Auden -- from Letter to Lord Byron/W.H. Auden -- Under Which Lyre/ W.H. Auden -- On the Circuit/W.H. Auden -- Doggerel by a Senior Citizen/W.H |
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Auden -- Hiraeth in N.W.3/ Wynford Vaughan-Thomas -- To His Not-So-Coy Mistress\Wynford Vaughan-Thomas -- Farewell to New Zealand/Wynford Vaughan-Thomas -- From Afternoons with Baedeker/ Osbert Lancaster -- Bacchanal/ Peter De Vries -- Christmas Family Reunion/ Peter De Vries -- 'Go to the Ant'/ Stanley J. Sharless -- A Game of Consequences/ Paul Dehn -- Chard Whitlow/ Henry Reed -- Lament of an Idle Demon/ R. P. Lister -- The Revolutionaries/R. P. Lister -- Miss Twye /Gavin Ewart -- limericks/ Victor Gray -- Betjeman/ Charles Causley -- A Grouchy Good Night to the Academic Year/ Ted Pauker -- A Trifle for Trafalgar Day/Ted Pauker -- Garland for a Propagandis/Ted Paukert -- Limeraiku/ Ted Pauker -- Thhics for Everyman/ Roger Wooddis -- Nothing Sacred/ Roger Woodis -- From An Ecclesiastical Chronicle/ John Heath-Stubbs -- The Poet of Bray/ John Heath- Stubbs -- A song of the GPO/ Gerry Hammill -- Bold Troulbeshooters/ Peter Veale -- Abroad Thoughtd/ Edward Blishen -- An Underdeveloped Counrty/ D. J. Enright -- Royalties/D. J. Enright -- Buy One Now/ D. J. Enright -- Poetry Reading/ Veron Scannell -- The Helbetrawss/ Kingsley Amis -- After Goliath/Kingsley Amis -- From The Evans Country/Kingsley Amis -- Fiction and the Reading Public/Philip Larkin -- Toads/Philip Larkin -- Toads Revisited/Philip Larkin -- I Remember, I Remember/Philip Larkin -- Self's the Man/Philip Larkin -- A Study of Reading Habits/Philip Larkin -- Annus Mirabilis/Philip Larkin -- The Dover Bitch/ Anthony Hecht -- Breakfast with Gerard Manley Hopkins/ Anthony Brode -- Ode on a Grecian Urn Summarized/ Desmond Skirrow -- Tom Wedgwood Tells/ Brian W. Aldiss -- Arizona Nature Myth/ James Michie -- A word in Edgeways/ Charles Tomlinson -- Elegy on Thomas Hood/ Martin Fagg -- A Consumer's Report/ Peter Porter -- The Political Orlando/ George Macbeth -- The Orando Commerical/George Macbeth -- The Five-Minute Orlando Macbeth/George Macbeth -- Place-Names of china/ Alan Bennett -- Bluse/ John Fuller -- Satie, at the End of Term/ Simon Curtis |
| Summary |
Over 250 poems of light English verse including satire, nonsense verse, epigrams, and limericks by 80 authors from Shakespeare to modern times |
| Analysis |
English poetry |
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Geschichte 1564-1977 |
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Humorous poetry, English |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 330-335 |
| Subject |
English poetry.
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Humorous poetry, English.
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| Author |
Amis, Kingsley.
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| LC no. |
78324995 |
| ISBN |
0192118625 |
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