@article{278538,
      author = {Hollander, John.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/278538},
      title = {American wits : an anthology of light verse /},
      publisher = {Library of America,},
      abstract = {In this book John Hollander offers a buoyant guided tour  of American light verse-a tradition he pursues from Ambrose  Bierce's sardonic The devil's dictionary quatrains to the  latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch,  and James Merrill. Along the way, American wits gathers a  rich harvest of couplets, clerihews, epigrams, parodies,  burlesques, and other forms of fractured verse. The varied  and often surprising list of contributors includes Edwin  Arlington Robinson, Don Marquis, T. S. Eliot, Christopher  Morley, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ogden Nash,  Phyllis McGinley, and Anthony Hecht.},
      recid = {278538},
      pages = {xxv, 194 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2003},
}