American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse
(American Poets Project #7)
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…
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- ISBN: 978-1-931082-49-5
- EAN: 9781931082495
- Produktnummer: 9969661
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Über den Autor
John Hollander (1929-2013), editor, was a distinguished poet, critic, and teacher whose many collections included The Night Mirror (1971), Reflections on Espionage(1976), Spectral Emanations (1978), and Powers of Thirteen (1983). He was a MacArthur Fellow and was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1983. He also edited two volumes in the Library of America's American Poets Project series: American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (2003) and Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems (2005).
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