American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (American Poets Project) артикул 7754d.
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (American Poets Project) артикул 7754d.

Book DescriptionDistinguished 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, ожыяи 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.  Художник:2003 г 200 стр ISBN 1931082499.