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- catalog abstract "In this book John Hollander offers a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic The devil's dictionary quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill. Along the way, American wits gathers a rich harvest of couplets, clerihews, epigrams, parodies, burlesques, and other forms of fractured verse. The varied and often surprising list of contributors includes Edwin Arlington Robinson, Don Marquis, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Morley, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ogden Nash, Phyllis McGinley, and Anthony Hecht.".
- catalog contributor b12812416.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description "Elegy written in a country coal-bin ; "A pre-Raphaelite" / Christopher Morley (1890-1957) -- Upper family / Maxwell Bodenheim (1892-1954) -- First fig ; Second fig ; Thursday ; Grown-up / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Ozymandias revisited ; Eschatology ; We have been here before ; "A joker who haunts Monticello" ; Flowers of rhetoric ; Ah, to be in ... / Morris Bishop (1893-1973) -- Portrait of the artist ; Chant for dark hours ; Unfortunate coincidence ; Comment ; Words of comfort to be scratched on a mirror ; News item ; Song of one of the girls ; Fighting words ; Inscription for the ceiling of a bedroom ; Experience ; Neither bloody nor bowed ; Bohemia ; Story ; Frustration ; Résumé ; One perfect rose ; Ballade at thirty-five ; Healed ; Pour prendre congé ; Coda ; The danger of writing defiant verse ; The actress / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- "the way to hump a cow" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Orbit on Parnassus / F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940).".
- catalog description "In this book John Hollander offers a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic The devil's dictionary quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill. Along the way, American wits gathers a rich harvest of couplets, clerihews, epigrams, parodies, burlesques, and other forms of fractured verse. The varied and often surprising list of contributors includes Edwin Arlington Robinson, Don Marquis, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Morley, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ogden Nash, Phyllis McGinley, and Anthony Hecht.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-185) and index.".
- catalog description "Mr. Rockefeller's hat ; To Helen ; The princess and the pea ; Ballade of poetic material / Helen Bevington (1906-2001) -- Under which lyre ; from Academic graffiti : "My first name, Wystan," John Milton, Oscar Wilde ; Parable / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- from Uncoupled couplets / William Cole (1919 -2000) -- The Dover bitch ; Handicap ; It never rains ... ; Firmness ; From the Grove Press ; Down there on a visit / Anthony Hecht (b. 1923) -- "From the bathing machine came a din" ; "The Proctor buys a pupil ices" / Edward Gorey (1925-2000) -- Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams ; La Ville de Nice / Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) -- Above all that? ; Neo-classic ; Tomorrows / James Merrill (1926-1995) -- Japanese beetles / X.J. Kennedy (b. 1929) -- Said ("J Alfred Prufrock to") ; Said ("Agatha Christie to") ; Said ("Dame Edith Evans to") ; Said ("J. Edgar Hoover to") ; High Renaissance ; Working habits ; Boston ; On the antiquity of warfare / George Starbuck (b. 1931).".
- catalog description "Sportif ; History of education ; Convalescence / David McCord (1897-1997) -- Week end bid I ; Week end bid II ; Lion / John Wheelwright (1897-1940) -- Marble-top ; I paint what I see ; Village revisited / E.B. White (1899-1985) -- Old story ; Aphrodite metropolis (III) ; Ballad of the Salvation Army ; Death and transfiguration of Fourteenth Street ; Cultural notes ; Dirge / Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) -- Spring comes to Murray Hill ; Watchman, what of the first first lady? ; Please pass the biscuit ; The termite ; The panther ; A beginner's guide to the ocean ; Kind of an ode to duty ; No wonder our fathers died ; A necessary dirge ; The private dining room ; What's in a name? Some letter I always forget ; Arthur ; The song of songs / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) -- View from a suburban window ; Trinity Place ; Why, some of my best friends are women ; Evening musicale ; Blues for a melodeon ; New England pilgrimage ; The day after Sunday / Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978).".
- catalog description "Us potes ; Ballade of Schopenhauer's philosophy ; The rich man ; To a thesaurus ; "Lines where beauty lingers" / Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960) -- An immorality ; Ancient music / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- The naming of cats ; Macavity : the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Tannhauser ; Carmen ; Rigoletto ; Pelleas and Melisande / Newman Levy (1888-1966) -- Survey of literature / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- from Love-songs, at once tender and informative, an unusual combination in verses of this character ; from The notebook of a schnook ; from Poems in praise of practically nothing ; 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 ; from Couplers, rare, medium, and well-done ; The sexes / Samuel Hoffenstein (1890-1947).".
- catalog description "from The devil's dictionary ; Corporal ; Elegy / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) -- Two men ; A mighty runner ; MIniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Famous baths and bathers / Carolyn Wells (1869-1942) -- Elegy ; from The lyric Baedeker : Philadelphia, Seattle ; Everything in its place ; On the vanity of earthly greatness / Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943) -- The embarrassing episode of little Miss Muffet ; The harmonious heedlessness of little Boy Blue / Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904) -- The Wrights' biplane ; In Divés' dive ; In a poem / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- the song of a mehitabel ; archy at the zoo ; from mehitabael's extensive past ; ballade of the under side / Don Marquis (1878-1937) -- Factory windows are always broken ; A colloquial reply : to any newsboy ; Niagara ; Kalamazoo / Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931).".
- catalog extent "xxv, 194 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "American wits.".
- catalog identifier "1931082499 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "American wits.".
- catalog isPartOf "American poets project ; [7]".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Library of America,".
- catalog relation "American wits.".
- catalog subject "811/.0708 21".
- catalog subject "American poetry.".
- catalog subject "Humorous poetry, American.".
- catalog subject "PS595.H8 A44 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Elegy written in a country coal-bin ; "A pre-Raphaelite" / Christopher Morley (1890-1957) -- Upper family / Maxwell Bodenheim (1892-1954) -- First fig ; Second fig ; Thursday ; Grown-up / Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) -- Ozymandias revisited ; Eschatology ; We have been here before ; "A joker who haunts Monticello" ; Flowers of rhetoric ; Ah, to be in ... / Morris Bishop (1893-1973) -- Portrait of the artist ; Chant for dark hours ; Unfortunate coincidence ; Comment ; Words of comfort to be scratched on a mirror ; News item ; Song of one of the girls ; Fighting words ; Inscription for the ceiling of a bedroom ; Experience ; Neither bloody nor bowed ; Bohemia ; Story ; Frustration ; Résumé ; One perfect rose ; Ballade at thirty-five ; Healed ; Pour prendre congé ; Coda ; The danger of writing defiant verse ; The actress / Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) -- "the way to hump a cow" / E.E. Cummings (1894-1962) -- Orbit on Parnassus / F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940).".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mr. Rockefeller's hat ; To Helen ; The princess and the pea ; Ballade of poetic material / Helen Bevington (1906-2001) -- Under which lyre ; from Academic graffiti : "My first name, Wystan," John Milton, Oscar Wilde ; Parable / W.H. Auden (1907-1973) -- from Uncoupled couplets / William Cole (1919 -2000) -- The Dover bitch ; Handicap ; It never rains ... ; Firmness ; From the Grove Press ; Down there on a visit / Anthony Hecht (b. 1923) -- "From the bathing machine came a din" ; "The Proctor buys a pupil ices" / Edward Gorey (1925-2000) -- Variations on a theme by William Carlos Williams ; La Ville de Nice / Kenneth Koch (1925-2002) -- Above all that? ; Neo-classic ; Tomorrows / James Merrill (1926-1995) -- Japanese beetles / X.J. Kennedy (b. 1929) -- Said ("J Alfred Prufrock to") ; Said ("Agatha Christie to") ; Said ("Dame Edith Evans to") ; Said ("J. Edgar Hoover to") ; High Renaissance ; Working habits ; Boston ; On the antiquity of warfare / George Starbuck (b. 1931).".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sportif ; History of education ; Convalescence / David McCord (1897-1997) -- Week end bid I ; Week end bid II ; Lion / John Wheelwright (1897-1940) -- Marble-top ; I paint what I see ; Village revisited / E.B. White (1899-1985) -- Old story ; Aphrodite metropolis (III) ; Ballad of the Salvation Army ; Death and transfiguration of Fourteenth Street ; Cultural notes ; Dirge / Kenneth Fearing (1902-1961) -- Spring comes to Murray Hill ; Watchman, what of the first first lady? ; Please pass the biscuit ; The termite ; The panther ; A beginner's guide to the ocean ; Kind of an ode to duty ; No wonder our fathers died ; A necessary dirge ; The private dining room ; What's in a name? Some letter I always forget ; Arthur ; The song of songs / Ogden Nash (1902-1971) -- View from a suburban window ; Trinity Place ; Why, some of my best friends are women ; Evening musicale ; Blues for a melodeon ; New England pilgrimage ; The day after Sunday / Phyllis McGinley (1905-1978).".
- catalog tableOfContents "Us potes ; Ballade of Schopenhauer's philosophy ; The rich man ; To a thesaurus ; "Lines where beauty lingers" / Franklin P. Adams (1881-1960) -- An immorality ; Ancient music / Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- The naming of cats ; Macavity : the mystery cat / T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Tannhauser ; Carmen ; Rigoletto ; Pelleas and Melisande / Newman Levy (1888-1966) -- Survey of literature / John Crowe Ransom (1888-1974) -- from Love-songs, at once tender and informative, an unusual combination in verses of this character ; from The notebook of a schnook ; from Poems in praise of practically nothing ; 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 ; from Couplers, rare, medium, and well-done ; The sexes / Samuel Hoffenstein (1890-1947).".
- catalog tableOfContents "from The devil's dictionary ; Corporal ; Elegy / Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) -- Two men ; A mighty runner ; MIniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935) -- Famous baths and bathers / Carolyn Wells (1869-1942) -- Elegy ; from The lyric Baedeker : Philadelphia, Seattle ; Everything in its place ; On the vanity of earthly greatness / Arthur Guiterman (1871-1943) -- The embarrassing episode of little Miss Muffet ; The harmonious heedlessness of little Boy Blue / Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873-1904) -- The Wrights' biplane ; In Divés' dive ; In a poem / Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- the song of a mehitabel ; archy at the zoo ; from mehitabael's extensive past ; ballade of the under side / Don Marquis (1878-1937) -- Factory windows are always broken ; A colloquial reply : to any newsboy ; Niagara ; Kalamazoo / Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931).".
- catalog title "American wits : an anthology of light verse / John Hollander, editor.".
- catalog type "text".