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A Treasury of Ribaldry - Couverture souple

Untermeyer, Louis

 
9780595179206: A Treasury of Ribaldry
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595179207 ISBN 13 : 9780595179206
Editeur : iUniverse, 2001

Synopsis

Treasury is defined as a book or person thought of as a valued source. Here we have both the book and the person, and valued is what they truly are. Well leave to the eminent poet, scholar, wit, and man of letters, Louis Untermeyer, to explain his interest in ribaldry, the subject of this delightful anthology. In the broadest sense, the worlds favorite humor has been a playful expression of primitive sensuality. It has, at times, been tinctured with self-mockery, a sort of protective derision, a comic exposure of what is condemned in public and gleefully practiced in private. The satisfactions of the body, from food to sex, are responsible for some of the wisest and wittiest as well as some of the most rollicking and ribald writing in literatureHere are about 300 separate ribald items, prose and poetry, arranged chronologically by the author (from Arnacreon-500 B.C. to late Twentieth century). Here are the naturals in ribaldry, taken from the works of Boccaccio, Chaucer, Villon, Rabelais, Balzac-and some surprises, by such talented folk as Cervantes, Defoe, Burns, Franklin, Byron, Maugham, Anderson, Mencken, Runyon, and a host of others.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Treasury is defined as a book or person thought of as a valued source. Here we have both the book and the person, and valued is what they truly are. Well leave to the eminent poet, scholar, wit, and man of letters, Louis Untermeyer, to explain his interest in ribaldry, the subject of this delightful anthology. In the broadest sense, the worlds favorite humor has been a playful expression of primitive sensuality. It has, at times, been tinctured with self-mockery, a sort of protective derision, a comic exposure of what is condemned in public and gleefully practiced in private. The satisfactions of the body, from food to sex, are responsible for some of the wisest and wittiest as well as some of the most rollicking and ribald writing in literatureHere are about 300 separate ribald items, prose and poetry, arranged chronologically by the author (from Arnacreon-500 B.C. to late Twentieth century). Here are the naturals in ribaldry, taken from the works of Boccaccio, Chaucer, Villon, Rabelais, Balzac-and some surprises, by such talented folk as Cervantes, Defoe, Burns, Franklin, Byron, Maugham, Anderson, Mencken, Runyon, and a host of others.

Biographie de l'auteur

Louis Untermeyer was called by the late Amy Lowell, the most versatile genius in America. His record of achievement in the field of poetry, parody and criticism are almost without parallel. For an extended period he was Americas most widely read poet abroad, and his collections and anthologies have sold hundreds of thousands. At home, he is generally recognized as one of the brilliant poets of his generation.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595179207
ISBN 13 
9780595179206
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
708
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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