The Oxford Book of Comic Verse - Couverture souple

Gross, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192832077 ISBN 13 : 9780192832078

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1995

Synopsis

From Geoffrey Chaucer to G. K. Chesterton, Augustan satire to advertising jingles, John Updike to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood, comic verse, has in its many forms, kept us amused for centuries. This superb anthology, notable above all for its breadth, reflects the international scope of humour by bringing together poets from far beyond the British Isles. Drawing on many different types of verse - epigrams, street ballads, clerihews, music-hall lyrics, and the double-dactyl - it 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. This book is intended for buyers of poetry, anthologies, humorous books.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all for its breadth. It is truly international in scope, bringing together poets from far beyond the British Isles. Drawing on many different types of verse, from epigrams to street ballads, from clerihew to music-hall lyrics, from the double-dactyl of the calypso, it offers an exceptionally wide range of comic pleasures. The poems in this collection 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. The established classics of comic verse, writers such as Tom Hood, W. S. Gilbert, and Ogden Nash, are represented in force, but many unfamiliar or unexpected names are also included. This collection undoubtedly contains matter of great historical interest, but the emphasis throughout is firmly on enjoyment.

Revue de presse

Review from previous edition the laughter quotient is greatly boosted by many unfamiliar delights (Times Literary Supplement)

Mr Gross has put enough plums in his pudding to cheer the most melancholy reader. (Ned Sherrin, Evening Standard)

John Gross has rightly relied on instinct, selected widely, and spared us too much agonising about what constitutes comic verse. (Literary Review)

hugely enjoyable (London Evening Standard)

Almost every quotation in this new Oxford collection amused me ... This is a good anthology. (F.E. Pardoe, Birmingham Post)

it is hard to voice any complaint whatever about an anthology so replete with riches - one, moreover, upholding the idea of humour as a by-product of an idiosyncratic vision, with ease-of-manner resulting from a cast-iron control ... True comic verse, as we find here, is always inseparable from comic verve. (Gerald Jacobs, The Spectator)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192832077
• ISBN 13: 9780192832078
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 546
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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