American wits : an anthology of light verse / John Hollander, editor.
2003
PS595.H8 A44 2003 (Mapit)
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Title
American wits : an anthology of light verse / John Hollander, editor.
ISBN
1931082499 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Library of America, c2003.
Language
English
Description
xxv, 194 p. ; 20 cm.
Call Number
PS595.H8 A44 2003
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.0708
Summary
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-185) and index.
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American poets project
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