The New Oxford book of light verse / chosen by Kingsley Amis
1978, First Edition. Oxford University Press. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #443652
ISBN: 0192118625
Physical description; xxxiv, 347 pages ; 23 cm. Notes; Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (pages 330-335). Contents; Hibermia'The master, the swabber' / William Shakespeare -- On Giles and Joan / Ben Jonson -- 'Oh that my lungs' / Anonymous -- Hye Nonny Nonny Noe / Anonymous -- from Satire upon the Licentious Age of Charles II / Samuel Butler -- from Hudibras / Samuel Butler -- The Character of Holland / Andrew Marvell -- Three Children / Anonymous -- A Description of Maidenhead -- On Marriage / Thomas Flatman -- Song / John Wilmot -- The Disabled Debauchee / John Wilmot -- Impromptu on Charles II / John Wilmot -- from The True-Born Englishman / Daniel Defoe -- A Pindaric on the Grunting of a Hog / Samuel Wesley -- The Despairing Lover / William Walsh -- Daphne / Jonathan Swift -- from The Life and Character of Dean Swift / Jonathan Swift -- from Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift / Jonathan Swift -- A New Song of New Smiles / John Gay -- Drinking Song / Anonymous -- The Vicar of Bray / Anonymous -- We're All Dry / Anonymous -- from A Horrid and Barbarous Robbery / John Byrom -- Epigram / John Byrom -- Extempore Intended to Allay the Violence of Party-Spirit / John Byrom -- Four Epigrams on the Naturalization Bill / John Byrom -- Impromptu / Benjamin Franklin -- The Power of Music / Thomas Lisle -- Epigram, Ballad, Idyll / Samuel Johnson -- The Sow came in / Anonymous -- Trip upon Trenchers / Anonymous -- Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat / Thomas Gray -- On Prince Frederick / Anonymous -- Rub-a-dub-dub / Anonymous -- Tweedledum and Tweedledee / Anonymous -- Baby, Baby / Anonymous -- Ode to a Pig while his Nose was being Bored / Robert Elliott -- To a Goose / Robert Southey -- On Communists / Ebenezer Elliott -- Three Sonnets / Leigh Hunt -- Rich and Poor / Thomas Love Peacock -- The Night before Larry was Stretched / Anonymous -- In Peterborough Churchyard / Anonymous -- from Beppo / Lord Byron(George Gordon Noel) -- from Don Juan / Lord Byron(George Gordon Noel) -- Fragment / Lord Byron(George Gordon Noel) -- Wordsworth Unvisited / Hartley Coleridge -- Love, You've been a Villain / James Planche -- Ching a Ring / James Planche -- An Austrian Army / Alaric A Watts -- Faithless Sally Brown / Thomas Hood -- Faithless Nelly Gray / Thomas Hood -- To Minerva / Thomas Hood -- Mr and Mrs Vite's Journey / Anonymous -- A Maiden There Lived / Anonymous -- Arrivals at a Watering-Place / W.M. Praed -- Good Night to the Season / W.M. Praed -- A Letter of Advice / W.M. Praed -- Every-Day Characters:Portrait of a Lady / W.M. Praed -- The Talented Man / W.M. Praed -- Ode to the Human Heart / Laman Blanchard -- Hendecasyllabics / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Somebody / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Popular / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Aestivation / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- Little Billee / W.M. Thackeray -- The Sorrows of Werther / W.M. Thackeray -- How Pleasant to Know / Edward Lear -- Limericks / Edward Lear -- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Robert Browning -- For A' That / Shirley Brooks -- To Disraeli / Shirley Brooks -- Our Photographs / Frederick Locker-Lampson -- Hans Breitmann's Barty / C.G. Leland -- Ballad by Hans Breitman / C.G. Leland -- I saw a Fishpond / Anonymous -- Companions, A Tale of a Grandfather / C.S. Calverley -- 'Forever' / C.S. Calverley -- The Schoolmaster Abroad with his Son / C.S. Calverley -- Lines on Hearing the Organ / C.S. Calverley -- In the Gloaming / C.S. Calverley -- from Dover to Munich / C.S. Calverley -- How Doth the Little Crocodile / Lewis Carroll -- You are old, Father William / Lewis Carroll -- 'Twinkle, twinkle, little bat!' / Lewis Carroll -- 'Tis the Voice of the Lobster / Lewis Carroll -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The Walrus and the Carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- The White Knight's Song / Lewis Carroll -- Hiawatha's Photographing / Lewis Carroll -- Rural Simplicity / H.J. Byron -- Tattle / Godfrey Turner -- The Journal of Society / Godfrey Turner -- The Darned Mounseer / W.S. Gilbert -- The Englishman / W.S. Gilbert -- The Modern Major-General / W.S. Gilbert -- The Policeman's Lot / W.S. Gilbert -- The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell' / W.S. Gilbert -- A Nightmare / W.S. Gilbert -- Rhymes / Henry S. Leigh -- Plain Lanquage From Truthful James / Bret Harte -- Further Language from Truthful James / Bret Harte -- Dora versus Rose / Austin Dobson -- The Levelled Churchyard / Thomas Hardy -- The Ruined Maid / Thomas Hardy -- The Parterre / E.H. Palmer -- Brahma / Andrew Lang -- Triolet / Gerald Manley Hopkins -- Not I / R.L. Stevenson -- She was Poor but she was Honest / Anonymous -- The Heathen Pass-ee / A.C. Hilton -- After Horace / A.D. Godley -- The Motor Bus/ A.D. Godley -- Woman's Degrees/A.D. Godley -- On Parisian Boulevard/ J.K. Stephen -- On A Rhine Steamer/J. K. Stephen -- Drinking Song/J. K. Stephen -- Sincere Flattery /J. K. Stephen -- To R.K./J. K. Stephen -- A Sonet / J.K. Stephen -- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy / A.E. Housman -- Occasional Poem / A.E. Housman -- The Elephant, or The Force of Habit / A.E. Housman -- Infant Innocence / A.E. Housman -- The Song of Mr. Toad/ Kenneth Grahame -- Balliol Rhymes / H.C. Beeching, C.A. Spring-Rice, Anonymous -- Gasbags / Anonymous -- The Tale of Lord Lovell / Anonymous -- The Ballad of William Bloat / Anonymous -- Wishes of an Elderly Man / Walter Raleigh -- A Birthday ode to Mr. Alfred Austin / Owen Seaman -- Enland Expects / Owen Seaman -- A plea for Trigamy / Owen Seaman -- The Sitting Bard / Owen Seaman -- The Lie / Rudy Kidling -- Canopus / B.L. Taylor -- On a General Election / Hilaire Belloc -- Fatigue / Hilaire Belloc -- Lord Finchley / Hilaire Belloc -- The Yak / Hilaire Belloc -- From A Moral Alphabet / Hilaire Belloc -- Rebecca, who slammed doors for fun / Hilaire Belloc -- An Ode / Anthony C. Deane -- The Cult of the Celtic / Anthony C. Deane -- A luncheon / Max Beerbohm -- A Luncheon / Max Beerbohm -- Iron / Walter De La Mare -- The Bards / Walter De La Mare -- Triolet / G.K. Chesterton -- Variations on an Air / G.K. Chesterton -- A Ballad of Abbreviations /G.K. Chesterton -- Antichrist, or the Reunion Of Christendom / G.K. Chesterton -- The Rolling English Road / G.K. Chesterton -- Departmental / Robert Frost -- Clerihews / C. Bentley -- Reminiscence / Wallace Irwin -- To the God of Love / E.V. Knox -- To William (whom We Have Missed) / P.G. Wodehouse -- The Gourmet's Love-Song / P.G. Wodehouse -- A Vision of Truth / J.C. Squire -- Wagner / Rupert Brooke -- Sonnet Reversed / Rupert Brooke -- Macavity: The Mystery Cat / T.S. Eliot -- Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat / T.S. Eliot -- cat Morgan Introduces Himself / T.S. Eliot -- Two Poems (after A.E. Housman) / Hugh Kingsmill -- Limericks / W.R. Inge, M.E Hare, R.A. Knox, Arthur Buller, Anonymous -- A Word of Encouragement / J.R. Pope -- Lines for a Worthy Person / A.P. Herbert -- Sapphics / B. Wyndham Lewis -- The Dancing Cabman / B. Morton. The New Vicar of Bray / Colin Ellis -- Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist / Robert Graves -- Wm. Brazier / Robert Graves -- The Persian Version / Robert Graves -- Wellcome, to the Caves of Arta! / Robert Graves -- Wigs and Beards / Robert Graves -- A Memory / L.A.G. Strong -- Evolutionary Hymn / C.S. Lewis -- Mad Dogs and Englishman / Noel Coward -- There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner / Noel Coward -- On Some South African Novelists / Roy Campbell -- Limericks / Anonymous -- Clerihew / Anonymous -- After Emerson / Anonymous -- Hibermia / Stuart Howard-Jones -- Refections at Dawn / Phyllis McGinley -- Caledonia / Anthony Powell -- In Wesminster Abbey / John Betjeman -- A Subaltern's Love-song / John Betjeman -- Invasion Exercise on the Poultry Farm / John Betjeman -- Pot Pourri From a Surrey Garden / John Betjeman -- How to get on in Society / John Betjeman -- Longfellow's Visit to Venice / John Betjeman -- Executive / John Betjeman -- Bagpipe Music / Louis Macneice -- From Autumn journal / Louis Macneice -- Uncle Henry / W.H. Auden -- The Unknown Citizen / W.H. Auden -- from Letter to Lord Byron / W.H. Auden -- Under Which Lyre / W.H. Auden -- On the Circuit / W.H. Auden -- Doggerel by a Senior Citizen / W.H. Auden -- Hiraeth in N.W.3 / Wynford Vaughan-Thomas -- To His Not-So-Coy Mistress / Wynford Vaughan-Thomas -- Farewell to New Zealand / Wynford Vaughan-Thomas -- From Afternoons with Baedeker / Osbert Lancaster -- Bacchanal / Peter De Vries -- Christmas Family Reunion / Peter De Vries -- 'Go to the Ant' / Stanley J. Sharless -- A Game of Consequences / Paul Dehn -- Chard Whitlow / Henry Reed -- Lament of an Idle Demon / R.P. Lister -- The Revolutionaries / R.P. Lister -- Miss Twye / Gavin Ewart -- Limericks / Victor Gray -- Betjeman / Charles Causley -- A Grouchy Good Night to the Academic Year / Ted Pauker -- A Trifle for Trafalgar Day / Ted Pauker -- Garland for a Propagandis / Ted Paukert -- Limeraiku / Ted Pauker -- Ethics for Everyman / Roger Wooddis -- Nothing Sacred / Roger Woodis -- From An Ecclesiastical Chronicle / John Heath-Stubbs -- The Poet of Bray / John Heath- Stubbs -- A song of the GPO / Gerry Hammill -- Bold Troubleshooters / Peter Veale -- Abroad Thought / Edward Blishen -- An Underdeveloped Country / D.J. Enright -- Royalties / D.J. Enright -- Buy One Now / D.J. Enright -- Poetry Reading / Veron Scannell -- The Albatross / Kingsley Amis -- After Goliath / Kingsley Amis -- From The Evans Country / Kingsley Amis -- Fiction and the Reading Public / Philip Larkin -- Toads / Philip Larkin -- Toads Revisited / Philip Larkin -- I Remember, I Remember / Philip Larkin -- Self's the Man / Philip Larkin -- A Study of Reading Habits / Philip Larkin -- Annus Mirabilis / Philip Larkin -- The Dover Bitch / Anthony Hecht -- Breakfast with Gerard Manley Hopkins / Anthony Brode -- Ode on a Grecian Urn Summarized / Desmond Skirrow -- Tom Wedgwood Tells / Brian W. Aldiss -- Arizona Nature Myth / James Michie -- A word in Edgeways / Charles Tomlinson -- Elegy on Thomas Hood / Martin Fagg -- A Consumer's Report / Peter Porter -- The Political Orlando / George Macbeth -- The Orando Commercial / George Macbeth -- The Five-Minute Orlando Macbeth / George Macbeth -- Place-Names of China / Alan Bennett -- Bluse / John Fuller -- Satie, at the End of Term / Simon Curtis. Subjects; Geschichte 1600-1977. Geschichte 1800-1977. English poetry. Humorous poetry, English. Poetry anthologies. English literature. Humour. Humorous poetry. USA.
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