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Author : James Parton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Humorous Poetry of the English Language written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Parton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Humorous Poetry of the English Language, from Chaucer to Saxe written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Parton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385469635
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Humorous Poetry of the English Language written by James Parton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
Author : Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Publisher : Boston : Dana Estes
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Treasury of Humorous Poetry written by Frederic Lawrence Knowles and published by Boston : Dana Estes. This book was released on 1902 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Trousdale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192895710
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry written by Rachel Trousdale and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers. For poets slightly outside of the literary or social mainstream, humor encourages mutual understanding and empathic insight among artist, audience, and subject. As a result, laughter helps poets reframe and reject literary, political, and discursive hierarchies--whether to overturn those hierarchies, or to place themselves at the top. While theorists like Freud and Bergson argue that laughter patrols and maintains the boundary between in-group and out-group, this volume shows how laughter helps us cross or re-draw those boundaries. Poets who practice such constructive humor promote a more democratic approach to laughter. Humor reveals their beliefs about their audiences and their attitudes toward the Romantic notion that poets are exceptional figures. When poets use humor to promote empathy, they suggest that poetry's ethical function is tied to its structure: empathy, humor, and poetry identify shared patterns among apparently disparate objects. This book explores a broad range of serious approaches to laughter: the inclusive, community-building humor of W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore; the self-aggrandizing humor of Ezra Pound; the self-critical humor of T. S. Eliot; Sterling Brown's antihierarchical comedy; Elizabeth Bishop's attempts to balance mockery with sympathy; and the comic epistemologies of Lucille Clifton, Stephanie Burt, Cathy Park Hong, and other contemporary poets. It charts a developing poetics of laughter in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, showing how humor can be deployed to embrace, to exclude, and to transform.
Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101174978
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Good Poems written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2003-08-26 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written a good poem. Somebody else can worry about greatness. Mary Oliver's "Wild Geese" is a good poem, and so is James Wright's "A Blessing." Regular people love those poems. People read them aloud at weddings, people send them by e-mail. Good Poems includes poems about lovers, children, failure, everyday life, death, and transcendance. It features the work of classic poets, such as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Robert Frost, as well as the work of contemporary greats such as Howard Nemerov, Charles Bukowski, Donald Hall, Billy Collins, Robert Bly, and Sharon Olds. It's a book of poems for anybody who loves poetry whether they know it or not.
Author : Barbara Hamby
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820330876
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Seriously Funny written by Barbara Hamby and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can serious poetry be funny? Chaucer and Shakespeare would say yes, and so do the authors of these 187 poems that address timeless concerns but that also include comic elements. Beginning with the Beats and the New York School and continuing with both marquee-name poets and newcomers, Seriously Funny ranges from poems that are capsized by their own tomfoolery to those that glow with quiet wit to ones in which a laugh erupts in the midst of terrible darkness. Most of the selections were made in the editors' battered compact car, otherwise known as the Seriously Funny Mobile Unit. During the two years in which Barbara Hamby and David Kirby made their choices, they'd set out with a couple of boxes of books in the back seat, and whoever wasn't driving read to the other. When they found that a poem made both of them think but laugh as well, they earmarked it. Readers will find a true generosity in these poems, an eagerness to share ideas and emotions and also to entertain. The singer Ali Farka Tour said that honey is never good when it's only in one mouth, and the editors of Seriously Funny hope its readers find much to share with others.
Author : Various
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Gelett Burgess
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Purple Cow! written by Gelett Burgess and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Purple Cow!" written by Gelett Burgess is a delightful collection of humorous and whimsical poems that showcase the author's wit and clever wordplay. Burgess' iconic poem "The Purple Cow" has become a classic in the world of nonsense literature. With its memorable verses and distinctive humor, the book brings joy and laughter to readers of all ages.
Author : Bruce Lansky
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1476768501
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)
Download or read book Kids Pick The Funniest Poems written by Bruce Lansky and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betcha laugh! This is one of the most popular collections of funny poetry for kids ever published. It's a classic because it's the first collection of poems selected by kids! It includes clever creations from some of the most popular names in children's poetry, including Bill Dodds, Timothy Tocher, Joyce Armor, Robert Pottle, Bruce Lansky, and Kenn Nesbitt. Humorous illustrations by Stephen Carpenter make this book even better.
Author : Brian McGackin
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594745293
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Broetry written by Brian McGackin and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As contemporary poets sing the glories of birds and birch trees, regular guys are left scratching their heads. Who can speak for Everyman? Who will articulate his love for Xbox 360, for Mama Celeste’s frozen pizza, for the cinematic oeuvre of Bruce Willis? Enter Broetry—a stunning debut from a dazzling new literary voice. “Broet Laureate” Brian McGackin goes where no poet has gone before—to Star Wars conventions, to frat parties, to video game tournaments, and beyond. With poems like “Ode to That Girl I Dated for, Like, Two Months Sophomore Year” and “My Friends Who Don’t Have Student Loans,” we follow the Bro from his high school graduation and college experience through a “quarter-life crisis” and beyond.
Author : Peter Washington
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0375413545
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (754 download)
Download or read book Comic Poems written by Peter Washington and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2001 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treasury of humorous poems brings together a sparkling constellation of witty poets–from Lord Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W. H. Auden–and embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks, clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse. Comic Poemsis studded with unforgettable classics, along with lesser-known comic gems from across the ages, from ancient Rome to modern America. Here is the immortal “How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear” beside Noël Coward’s “Mad Dogs and Englishmen”; the incomparable “Jabberwocky” next to the famous “There was a young lady of Riga.” From Cole Porter and John Updike on love and marriage to Stevie Smith and Dorothy Parker on mortality to the ever-talented Anonymous on almost anything, the lighthearted poetry collected here ranges from the most delightful nonsense to the most sophisticated wit.
Author : Calista McRae
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501750984
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Lyric as Comedy written by Calista McRae and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poet walks into a bar... In Lyric as Comedy, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, she finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, and Monica Youn. Lyric as Comedy draws out the ways in which key American poets have struggled with persistent expectations about what expressive poetry can and should do. McRae reveals how the modern lyric, rather than bestowing order on the poet's thoughts and emotions, can center on impropriety and confusion, formal breakage and linguistic unruliness, and self-observation and self-staging. The close readings in Lyric as Comedy also provide new insight into the theory and aesthetics of comedy, taking in the indirect, glancing comic affordances of poetry. In doing so, McRae captures varieties of humor that do not align with traditional terms, centering abjection and pleasure as facets of contemporary lyric practice.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1352 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059383268X
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Dream Work written by Mary Oliver and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, an “astonishing” book of poetry from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of American Primitive and “one of our very best poets” (New York Times Book Review) Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems originally published in 1986, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Oliver’s American Primitive, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. The depth and diversity of perceptual awareness, so steadfast and radiant in American Primitive, continues in Dream Work. Additionally, she has turned her attention in these poems to the solitary and difficult labors of the spirit, to accepting the truth about one’s personal world, and to valuing the triumphs while transcending the failures of human relationships.
Author : Neil Astley
Publisher : Bloodaxe Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781852249618
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (496 download)
Download or read book Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar written by Neil Astley and published by Bloodaxe Books Limited. This book was released on 2015 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively anthology brings together two kinds of funny: humorous poems that make you laugh or smile (funny ha-ha), and strange, surreal, witty or plain weird poems (funny peculiar). There has always been a tradition of comic and curious verse in English poetry, but in contemporary poetry the peculiar has come into its own, as this surprising selection shows. Presented in a hardback version of the giftbook format used for other shorter Bloodaxe anthologies aimed at a popular readership, Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar covers a wide variety of highly entertaining or provocatively engaging poets.
Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
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Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
