Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews
Not since W. H. Auden's Academic Graffiti has a poet of serious substance indulged so thoroughly in clerihews, those miniature (and often outrageously fictional) biographies invented just over 100 years ago by E. C. Bentley (1875-1956). In Brief Candles, Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Taylor takes on with hilarious irreverence people usually taken most seriously -- members of the Supreme Court, poets laureate, literary theorists, Whitewater celebrities, and New Testament figures -- demonstrating through 101 clerihews that one of the primary purposes of poetry is to have fun, even while craftsmanship remains paramount. Taylor's shimmering wit and…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-2564-9
- EAN: 9780807125649
- Produktnummer: 9064614
- Verlag: Louisiana St Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 51 S.
- Masse: H18.2 cm x B13.8 cm x D0.5 cm 68 g
- Gewicht: 68
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