The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse
DOWNLOAD
Download The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Gross
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse written by John Gross and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Gross
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
The Oxford Book Of Comic Verse written by John Gross and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Humor categories.
From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all for its breadth. It is truly international in scope, bringing together poets from far beyond the British Isles. Drawing on many different types of verse, from epigrams to street ballads, from clerihew to music-hall lyrics, from the double-dactyl of the calypso, it offers an exceptionally widerange of comic pleasures. The poems in this collection are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful; written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. The established classics of comic verse, writers such as Tom Hood, W. S. Gilbert, and Ogden Nash, are represented in force, but many unfamiliar or unexpected names are also included; so are many recent writers - the classics of the future. This collection undoubtedly contains matterof great historical interest, but the emphasis throughout is firmly on enjoyment.
The Oxford Handbook Of Victorian Poetry
DOWNLOAD
Author : Matthew Bevis
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-10-31
The Oxford Handbook Of Victorian Poetry written by Matthew Bevis and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks at a few central innovations and engagements—'Rhythm', 'Beat', 'Address', 'Rhyme', 'Diction', 'Syntax', and 'Story'. The second section, 'Literary Landscapes', examines the traditions and writers (from classical times to the present day) that influence and take their bearings from Victorian poets. The third section provides 'Readings' of twenty-three poets by concentrating on particular poems or collections of poems, offering focused, nuanced engagements with the pleasures and challenges offered by particular styles of thinking and writing. The final section, 'The Place of Poetry', conceives and explores 'place' in a range of ways in order to situate Victorian poetry within broader contexts and discussions: the places in which poems were encountered; the poetic representation and embodiment of various sites and spaces; the location of the 'Victorian' alongside other territories and nationalities; and debates about the place - and displacement - of poetry in Victorian society. This Handbook is designed to be not only an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics, but also a landmark publication—provocative, seminal volume that will offer a lasting contribution to future studies in the area.
The Oxford Handbook Of Victorian Poetry
DOWNLOAD
Author : Matthew Bevis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2013-10
The Oxford Handbook Of Victorian Poetry written by Matthew Bevis and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with History categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry offers an authorative collection of original essays and is an essential resource for those interested in Victorian poetry and poetics.
The New Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Gross
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008
The New Oxford Book Of Literary Anecdotes written by John Gross and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An unrivalled collection of literary gossip and intimate sidelights on the lives of the authors. This hugely entertaining anthology ranges from Chaucer to the present day, with anecdotes that are hilarious, touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, and downright weird.
The Poetry Handbook
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Lennard
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2006-01-06
The Poetry Handbook written by John Lennard and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Poetry Handbook is a lucid and entertaining guide to the poet's craft, and an invaluable introduction to practical criticism for students. Chapters on each element of poetry, from metre to gender, offer a wide-ranging general account, and end by looking at two or three poems from a small group (including works by Donne, Elizabeth Bishop, Geoffrey Hill, and Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott), to build up sustained analytical readings. Thorough and compact, with notes and quotations supplemented by detailed reference to the Norton Anthology of Poetry and a companion website with texts, links, and further discussion, The Poetry Handbook is indispensable for all school and undergraduate students of English. A final chapter addresses examinations of all kinds, and sample essays by undergraduates are posted on the website. Critical and scholarly terms are italicised and clearly explained, both in the text and in a complete glossary; the volume also includes suggestions for further reading. The first edition, widely praised by teachers and students, showed how the pleasures of poetry are heightened by rigorous understanding and made that understanding readily available. This second edition — revised, expanded, updated, and supported by a new companion website - confirm The Poetry Handbook as the best guide to poetry available in English.
British Satire 1785 1840 Volume 1
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Strachan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-04-01
British Satire 1785 1840 Volume 1 written by John Strachan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This set offers a representitive collection of the verse satire of the Romantic period, published between the mid-1780s and the mid-1830s. As well as two single-author volumes, from William Gifford and Thomas Moore, there is also a wealth of rare, unedited material.
From The Garden To The Street
DOWNLOAD
Author : Morag Styles
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 1997-06-01
From The Garden To The Street written by Morag Styles and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
From John Bunyan's 'country rhimes' to rude chants about Manchester United, from Ted Hughes to Edward Lear, and from William Blake to the Taylor sisters, Morag Styles covers three hundred years of poetry with infectious enthusiasm and a keen critical eye. In this scholarly and fascinating book, she provides an informative account of the history of poetry written for children in Britain and America in the last three centuries. She analyses the major poets, genres and developments over this period, and traces the continuities between the past and the present. Styles asks fundamental questions which have often been left unanswered: What do we mean by children's poetry? Why did such a seemingly small number of women write poetry for children until recently? The author subscribes to the widest possible definition of poetry, and so the reader will find in this book hymns, songs, playground rhymes, raps and verse - whether trivial or profound. From the Garden to the Street will provoke, inform and entertain academics of children's literature, those who teach it in the classroom, and all of us who still take pleasure in the poetry of childhood.
Scottish Comic Verse
DOWNLOAD
Author : Maurice Lindsay
language : en
Publisher: Robert Hale
Release Date : 1981
Scottish Comic Verse written by Maurice Lindsay and has been published by Robert Hale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Poetry categories.
The Penguin Book Of English Verse
DOWNLOAD
Author : P J Keegan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2004-09-30
The Penguin Book Of English Verse written by P J Keegan and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-30 with Poetry categories.
This ambitious and revelatory collection turns the traditional chronology of anthologies on its head, listing poems according to their first individual appearance in the language rather than by poet.