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American wits : an anthology of light verse Cover Image Book Book

American wits : an anthology of light verse / John Hollander, editor.

Hollander, John (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 1931082499 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xxv, 194 pages ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Library of America, [2003]

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Includes index.

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Subject: Humorous poetry, American.
American poetry.

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Introduction xv
AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?)
from The Devil's Dictionary
Corporal
1(1)
Elegy
1(1)
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON (1869-1935)
Two Men
2(1)
A Mighty Runner
3(1)
Miniver Cheevy
3(2)
CAROLYN WELLS (1869-1942)
Famous Baths and Bathers
5(2)
ARTHUR GUITERMAN (1871-1943)
Elegy
7(1)
from The Lyric Baedeker
Philadelphia
7(2)
Seattle
9(1)
Everything In Its Place
10(1)
On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
11(1)
GUY WETMORE CARRYL (1873-1904)
The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffer
12(1)
The Harmonious Heedlessness of Little Boy Blue
13(3)
ROBERT FROST (1874-1963)
The Wrights' Biplane
16(1)
In Divés' Dive
16(1)
In a Poem
16(1)
DON MARQUIS (1878-1937)
the song of mehitabel
17(3)
archy at the zoo
20(2)
from mehitabel's extensive past
22(2)
ballade of the under side
24(3)
VACHEL LINDSAY (1879-1931)
Factory Windows Are Always Broken
27(1)
A Colloquial Reply: To Any Newsboy
27(1)
Niagara
28(2)
Kalamazoo
30(3)
FRANKLIN P. ADAMS (1881-1960)
Us Potes
33(1)
Ballade of Schopenhauer's Philosophy
34(1)
The Rich Man
35(1)
To a Thesaurus
35(2)
"Lines Where Beauty Lingers"
37(2)
EZRA POUND (1885-1972)
An Immorality
39(1)
Ancient Music
39(2)
T.S. ELIOT (1888-1965)
The Naming of Cats
41(1)
Macavity: The Mystery Cat
42(3)
NEWMAN LEVY (1888-1966)
Tannhauser
45(3)
Carmen
48(2)
Rigoletto
50(3)
Pelleas and Melisande
53(3)
JOHN CROWE RANSOM (1888-1974)
Survey of Literature
56(2)
SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN (1890-1947)
from Love-songs, at Once Tender and Informative-An Unusual Combination in Verses of This Character
58(3)
from The Notebook of a Schnook
61(2)
from Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing
63(2)
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(2)
from Couplets, Rare, Medium, and Well-Done
The Sexes
67(1)
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1890-1957)
Elegy Written in a Country Coal-Bin
68(1)
"A Pre-Raphaelite"
69(1)
MAXWELL BODENHEIM (1892-1954)
Upper Family
70(2)
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY (1892-1950)
First Fig
72(1)
Second Fig
72(1)
Thursday
72(1)
Grown-Up
73(1)
MORRIS BISHOP (1893-1973)
Ozymandias Revisited
74(1)
Eschatology
74(1)
We Have Been Here Before
75(1)
"A joker who haunts Monticello"
76(1)
Flowers of Rhetoric
76(1)
Ah, To Be In ...
77(2)
DOROTHY PARKER (1893-1967)
Portrait of the Artist
79(1)
Chant for Dark Hours
79(2)
Unfortunate Coincidence
81(1)
Comment
81(1)
Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror
81(1)
News Item
81(1)
Song of One of the Girls
82(1)
Fighting Words
82(1)
Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom
83(1)
Experience
84(1)
Neither Bloody Nor Bowed
84(1)
Bohemia
84(1)
Story
85(1)
Frustration
85(1)
Résumé
86(1)
One Perfect Rose
86(1)
Ballade at Thirty-Five
87(1)
Healed
88(1)
Pour Prendre Congé
89(1)
Coda
90(1)
The Danger of Writing Defiant Verse
90(1)
The Actress
91(1)
E.E. CUMMINGS (1894-1962)
"the way to hump a cow"
92(2)
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD (1896-1940)
Obit on Parnassus
94(2)
DAVID MCCORD (1897-1991)
Sportif
96(1)
History of Education
97(1)
Convalescence
97(2)
JOHN WHEELWRIGHT (1897-1940)
Week End Bid I
99(1)
Week End Bid II
99(1)
Lion
100(2)
E.B. WHITE (1899-1985)
Marble-Top
102(1)
I Paint What I See
102(3)
Village Revisited
105(1)
KENNETH FEARING (1902-1961)
Old Story
106(1)
Aphrodite Metropolis (III)
106(1)
Ballad of the Salvation Army
107(1)
Death and Transfiguration of Fourteenth Street
108(1)
Cultural Notes
109(2)
Dirge
111(2)
OGDEN NASH (1902-1971)
Spring Comes to Murray Hill
113(1)
Watchman, What of the First First Lady?
114(1)
Please Pass the Biscuit
115(1)
The Termite
116(1)
The Panther
117(1)
A Beginner's Guide to the Ocean
117(1)
Kind of an Ode to Duty
118(1)
No Wonder Our Fathers Died
119(2)
A Necessary Dirge
121(1)
The Private Dining Room
122(2)
What's in a Name? Some Letter I Always Forget
124(1)
Arthur
125(1)
The Song of Songs
125(3)
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY (1905-1978)
View from a Suburban Window
128(1)
Trinity Place
128(1)
Why, Some of My Best Friends Are Women
129(2)
Evening Musicale
131(1)
Blues for a Melodeon
132(1)
New England Pilgrimage
133(4)
The Day After Sunday
137(2)
HELEN BEVINGTON (1906-2001)
Mr. Rockefeller's Hat
139(1)
To Helen
140(1)
The Princess and the Pea
140(1)
Ballade of Poetic Material
141(2)
W.H. AUDEN (1907-1973)
Under Which Lyre
143(7)
from Academic Graffiti:
"My first name, Wystan"
150(1)
John Milton
150(1)
Oscar Wilde
150(1)
Parable
150(1)
WILLIAM COLE (1919-2000)
from Uncoupled Couplets
151(1)
ANTHONY HECHT (b.1923)
The Dover Bitch
152(1)
Handicap
153(1)
It Never Rains ...
154(1)
Firmness
154(1)
From the Grove Press
155(1)
Down There on a Visit
155(1)
EDWARD GOREM (1925-2000)
"From the bathing machine came a din"
156(1)
"The Proctor buys a pupil ices"
156(1)
KENNETH KOCH (1925-2002)
Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams
157(1)
La Ville de Nice
158(1)
JAMES MERRILL (1926-1995)
Above All That?
159(1)
Neo-Classic
159(1)
Tomorrows
160(2)
X.J. KENNEDY (b.1929)
Japanese Beetles
162(4)
GEORGE STARBUCK (b.1931)
Said ("J Alfred Prufrock to")
166(1)
Said ("Agatha Christie to")
166(1)
Said ("Dame Edith Evans to")
167(1)
Said ("J. Edgar Hoover to")
167(1)
High Renaissance
168(1)
Working Habits
168(1)
Boston
169(1)
On the Antiquity of Warfare
170(5)
Sources and Acknowledgments 175(6)
Notes 181(5)
Index of Poets, Titles, and First Lines 186

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