A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse by Cohen J M

A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse by Cohen J M

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This anthology includes the best of three collections of comic and curious verse which first appeared in the 1950s. The reader will find many firm favourites, as well as recent discoveries - satire, nonsense, parody, punnings and lampoons - making up an entertaining collection.

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A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse by Cohen J M

This anthology includes the best of three collections of comic and curious verse which first appeared with enormous success in the 1950s. It covers the whole tradition of English and American comic verse writing from the masters - Hood, Lear, Carrol -, to anonymous lampoonists of the 18th-century, up to the present day. The reader will find many firm favourites, as well as recent discoveries - satire, nonsense, parody, punnings and lampoons - making up an entertaining collection.
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ISBN 13 9780140585292
ISBN 10 014058529X
Title A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse
Author Cohen J M
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1989-09-28
Number of pages 480
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.