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Comic Poems
Book Description
This treasury of humorous poems brings together a
sparkling constellation of witty poets–from Lord
Rochester to Lewis Carroll, from Edward Lear to
Ogden Nash, from Dorothy Parker to W. H. Auden–and
embraces a wide range of forms, including limericks,
clerihews, ballads, sonnets, and nonsense verse.
Comic Poems is studded with unforgettable classics,
along with lesser-known comic gems from across the
ages, from ancient Rome to modern America. Here is
the immortal "How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear" beside
No‘l Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen"; the
incomparable "Jabberwocky" next to the famous "There
was a young lady of Riga." From Cole Porter and John
Updike on love and marriage to Stevie Smith and
Dorothy Parker on mortality to the ever-talented
Anonymous on almost anything, the lighthearted
poetry collected here ranges from the most
delightful nonsense to the most sophisticated wit.
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The Top 500 Poems
Book Description
This is the story of poetry in English, a collection
of the best 500 poems, based not on one critic's
choice, not on one poet's choice, but on the
collective choice of 550 critics, editors, and
poets.
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Poems
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