American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse
| Author | : John Hollander |
| Publisher | : American Poets Project |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2003-10-13 |
| ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015057615158 |
| ISBN-13 | : |
| Rating | : 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Download or read book American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse written by John Hollander and published by American Poets Project. This book was released on 2003-10-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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