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Corporal | 1 | |
Elegy | 1 | |
Two Men | 2 | |
A Mighty Runner | 3 | |
Miniver Cheevy | 3 | |
Famous Baths and Bathers | 5 | |
Elegy | 7 | |
Philadelphia | 7 | |
Seattle | 9 | |
Everything In Its Place | 10 | |
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness | 11 | |
The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet | 12 | |
The Harmonious Heedlessness of Little Boy Blue | 13 | |
The Wrights' Biplane | 16 | |
In Dives' Dive | 16 | |
In a Poem | 16 | |
The song of mehitabel | 17 | |
Archy at the zoo | 20 | |
from mehitabel's extensive past | 22 | |
Ballade of the under side | 24 | |
Factory Windows Are Always Broken | 27 | |
A Colloquial Reply: To Any Newsboy | 27 | |
Niagara | 28 | |
Kalamazoo | 30 | |
Us Potes | 33 | |
Ballade of Schopenhauer's Philosophy | 34 | |
The Rich Man | 35 | |
To a Thesaurus | 35 | |
"Lines Where Beauty Lingers" | 37 | |
An Immorality | 39 | |
Ancient Music | 39 | |
The Naming of Cats | 41 | |
Macavity: The Mystery Cat | 42 | |
Tannhauser | 45 | |
Carmen | 48 | |
Rigoletto | 50 | |
Pelleas and Melisande | 53 | |
Survey of Literature | 56 | |
An Unusual Combination in Verses of This Character | 58 | |
from The Notebook of a Schnook | 61 | |
from Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing | 63 | |
from Songs about Life and Brighter Things Yet; A Survey of the Entire Earthly Panorama, Animal, Vegetable and Mineral, with Appropriate Comment by the Author, of a Philosophic, Whimsical, Humorous or Poetic Nature - a Truly Remarkable Undertaking | 65 | |
The Sexes | 67 | |
Elegy Written in a Country Coal-Bin | 68 | |
"A Pre-Raphaelite" | 69 | |
Upper family | 70 | |
First Fig | 72 | |
Second Fig | 72 | |
Thusday | 72 | |
Grown-Up | 73 | |
Ozymandias Revisited | 74 | |
Eschatology | 74 | |
We Have Been Here Before | 75 | |
"A joker who haunts Monticello" | 76 | |
Flowers of Rhetoric | 76 | |
Ah, To Be In ... | 77 | |
Portrait of the Artist | 79 | |
Chant for Dark Hours | 79 | |
Unfortunate Coincidence | 81 | |
Comment | 81 | |
Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror | 81 | |
News Item | 81 | |
Song of One of the Girls | 82 | |
Fighting Words | 82 | |
Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom | 83 | |
Experience | 84 | |
Neigher Bloody Nor Bowed | 84 | |
Bohemia | 84 | |
Story | 85 | |
Frustration | 85 | |
Resume | 86 | |
One Perfect Rose | 86 | |
Ballade at Thirty-Five | 87 | |
Healed | 88 | |
Pour Prendre Conge | 89 | |
Coda | 90 | |
The Danger of Writing Defiant Verse | 90 | |
The Actress | 91 | |
"The way to hump a cow" | 92 | |
Obit on Parnassus | 94 | |
Sportif | 96 | |
History of Education | 97 | |
Convalescence | 97 | |
Week End Bid I | 99 | |
Week End Bid II | 99 | |
Lion | 100 | |
Marble-Top | 102 | |
I Paint What I See | 102 | |
Village Revisited | 105 | |
Old Story | 106 | |
Aphrodite Metropolis (III) | 106 | |
Ballad of the Salvation Army | 107 | |
Death and Transfiguration of Fourteenth Street | 108 | |
Cultural Notes | 109 | |
Dirge | 111 | |
Spring Comes to Murray Hill | 113 | |
Watchman, What of the First First Lady? | 114 | |
Please Pass the Biscuit | 115 | |
The Termite | 116 | |
The Panther | 117 | |
A Beginner's Guide to the Ocean | 117 | |
Kind of an Ode to Duty | 118 | |
No Wonder Our Fathers Died | 119 | |
A Necessary Dirge | 121 | |
The Private Dining Room | 122 | |
What's in a Name? Some Letter I Always Forget | 124 | |
Arthur | 125 | |
The Song of Songs | 125 | |
View from a Suburban Window | 128 | |
Trinity Place | 128 | |
Why, Some of My Best Friends Are Women | 129 | |
Evening Musicale | 131 | |
Blues for a Melodeon | 132 | |
New England Pilgrimage | 133 | |
The Day After Sunday | 137 | |
Mr. Rockefeller's Hat | 139 | |
To Helen | 140 | |
The Princess and the Pea | 140 | |
Ballade of Poetic Material | 141 | |
Under Which Lyre | 143 | |
from Academic Graffiti: "My first name, Wystan" | 150 | |
John Milton | 150 | |
Oscar Wilde | 150 | |
Parable | 150 | |
from Uncoupled Couplets | 151 | |
The Dover Bitch | 152 | |
Handicap | 152 | |
It Never Rains ... | 154 | |
Firmness | 154 | |
From the Grove Press | 155 | |
Down There on a Visit | 155 | |
"From the bathing machine came a din" | 156 | |
"The Proctor buys a pupil ices" | 156 | |
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams | 157 | |
La Ville de Nice | 158 | |
Above All That? | 159 | |
Neo-Classic | 159 | |
Tomorrows | 160 | |
Japanese Beetles | 162 | |
Said ("J. Alfred Prufrock to") | 166 | |
Said ("Agatha Christie to") | 166 | |
Said ("Dame Edith Evans to") | 167 | |
Said ("J. Edgar Hoover to") | 167 | |
High Renaissance | 168 | |
Working Habits | 168 | |
Boston | 169 | |
On the Antiquity of Warfare | 170 | |
Sources and Acknowledgments | 175 | |
Notes | 181 | |
Index of Poets, Titles, and First Lines | 186 |
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Add American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse, Distinguished 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 , American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse, Distinguished 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 , American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse to your collection on WonderClub |