The Oxford book of light verse / chosen by W.H. Auden
1973, First Edition. Oxford : Clarendon Press. First paperback edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #434265
Physical description; xxiv, 553 pages ; 19 cm. Notes; Includes index. Originally published, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1938. Contents; Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845) -- Hilaire Belloc (1870-) -- (Enoch) Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) -- Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-) -- John Betjeman (1906-) -- William Blake (1757-1827) -- Robert Bridges (1844-1930) -- Robert Burns (1759-96) -- Samuel C. Bushnell -- Samuel Butler (1612-80) -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) -- George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Charles Stuart Calverley (1831-84) -- Thomas Campion (d.1620) -- George Canning (1770-1827) -- Lewis Carroll (C. L. Dodgson) (1832-98) -- Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?-1400) -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874- 1936) -- William Cleland (1661?-89) -- Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-61) -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) -- Richard Corbet (1582-1635) -- Charles Dibdin (1745-1814) -- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) (1832-98) -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- William Dunbar (1465?-1530?) -- Thomas Durfey (1653-1723) -- Henry Fielding (1707-54) -- John Fletcher (1579-1625) -- David Garrick (1717-79) -- John Gay (1685-1732) -- William Schwenck Gilbert (1836-1911) -- A. Godwin (15th century) -- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74) -- John Woodcock Graves (1795-1886) -- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- Maurice Evan Hare (1886-) -- Sir John Harington (1561- 1612) -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- John Hilton (d.1657) -- Antony Holborne (fl.1597) -- William Holborne (fl.1600) -- Thomas Hood (1799-1845) -- Alfred Edward Housman (1859-1936) -- Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) -- Robert Jones (fl.1616)
Ben Jonson (1573?-1637) -- Thomas Jordan (1612?-85) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Ronald Arbuthnot Knox (1888-) -- Charles Lamb (1775-1834) -- Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) -- David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) -- Edward Lear (1812-88) -- Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) -- Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800-59) -- Andrew Marvell (1621-78) -- Herman Melville (1819-91) -- Richard Alfred Milliken (1767-1815) -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Martin Parker (d.1656?) -- George Peele (1558?-97?) -- Peter Pindar (John Wolcot) (1738-1819) -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- Richard Porson (1759-1808) -- Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802-39) -- Laurence Price (fl.1625-80?) -- Matthew Prior (1664-1721) -- Innes Randolph -- Thomas Ravenscroft (1592?-1635?) -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-80) -- Siegfried Sassoon (1886-) -- Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) -- William Shakespeare (1564- 1616) -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) -- John Skelton (1460?-1529) -- Edmund Spenser (1552?-99) -- Sir John Suckling (1609-42) -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Jane Taylor (1783-1824) -- Aurelian Townsend (fl.1601-43) -- William Walsh (1663-1708) -- Edward Ward (1667-1731) -- Isaac Watts (1674-1748) -- Thomas Weelkes (fl.1602) -- Thomas, Marquis of Wharton (1648-1715) -- Paul Whitehead (1710-74) -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647-80) -- John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (1738-1819) -- William Wordsworth (1770-1850) -- William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Subjects; English poetry. Humorous poetry, English. English poetry Collections. Humorous poetry Collections. English poetry Anthologies. Poetry anthologies. Humorous poetry. Commonwealth Poetry - Anthologies.
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