American Wits


American Wits

American Wits

Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander offers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse--a tradition he delightfully 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. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.

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American Wits - ISBN: 9781931082495 - Author(s): John Hollander - Publisher: Penguin Group USA
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