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- ISBN
- 9781931082495
- Book Title
- American Wits: an Anthology of Light Verse : (American Poets Project #7)
- Item Length
- 7.8in
- Publisher
- Library of America, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Poetry, Literary Collections, Humor
- Topic
- Form / Limericks & Verse, American / General
- Item Width
- 4.8in
- Item Weight
- 9.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 219 Pages
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Irreverent, playful, and inventive, the American light verse of the past century offers a brimming feast of urbane pleasures. Bubbling over with engaging parodies, sparkling aphorisms, and wisecracking asides, the poems gathered here display a sure-footed handling of the poet's art. The foremost practitioners of light verse "took delight not only in what they had to say but in their precise manner of saying it," writes John Hollander in his introduction. "What makes it mean something is . . . the unique pleasure that poets and readers alike can take in that craft." The poets in this volume included journalists, playwrights, screenwriters, and also some of the greatest poets of the century. We have Frost, Eliot, Millay, and Cummings, Don Marquis' free-verse tales of Archy and Mehitabel, Newman Levy's comic twists on grand opera, Samuel Hoffenstein's disenchanted parsing of romantic sentiment, Dorothy Parker's bitter epigrams, Ogden Nash's brilliantly funny exercises in irregular meter: all are among the highlights from a century's worth of poetic humor. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.
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Publisher
Library of America, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1931082499
ISBN-13
9781931082495
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2495427
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Wits: an Anthology of Light Verse : (American Poets Project #7)
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Form / Limericks & Verse, American / General
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Poetry, Literary Collections, Humor
Number of Pages
219 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
4.8in
Item Weight
9.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
7
Lc Classification Number
Ps595.H8a44 2003
Reviews
"The still-glimmering stars of light verse include Dorothy Parker, of course, who breaks your heart as well as your sobriety with her wit and acerbity; the nonpareil Ogden Nash; and Phyllis McGinley. But opera-flouting Norman Levy, love-deflating Samuel Hoffenstein, poetic chestnut-parodying Morris Bishop--these and other now-obscure names demand to be lit anew, to be read." -- Booklist (starred review)
Copyright Date
2003
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-046636
Dewey Decimal
811/.0708
Series
American Poets Project Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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