Joyce (Modern masters)

Gross, John J.

Literature & Fiction

Fontana

<p>From limericks to social satire, The Oxford Book of Comic Verse offers a remarkable collection of outstanding light poetry. John Gross has brought together the finest writers in the history of the English language - from Chaucer and Skelton to Shakespeare and Swift, Lord Byron to Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson to John Updike, as well as witty song lyrics from such artists as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter - offering delightful examples of their comic verse. Drawing on many different types of verse, including epigrams, street ballads, advertising jingles, clerihew, music-hall lyrics, and the doubledactyl of the calypso, this highly entertaining collection offers an exceptionally wide range of comic pleasures. The poems 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. Compiled by one of our finest critics and anthologists, this reissue boasts a stylish new design and a fresh contemporary feel.</p>

The Oxford Book of Comic Verse (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Oxford University Press

Rudyard Kipling: The man, his work and his world;

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

The age of Kipling

SIMON AND SCHUSTER

<p>A sociological look at the influence of Shakespeare's Shylock on world mythology describes the character's creation and his evolution on the stage, and presents writing about him by Proust, James, T. S. Eliot, and others. 10,000 first printing.</p>

Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy

Simon&Schuster

John P. Marquand (Twayne's United States Authors Series, No. 4533)

Twayne Publishers

John P. Marquand

New College & Univ Pr

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