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- catalog abstract ""Max," or as he is sometimes known, Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956), was a sophisticated caricaturist with both pen and drawing pencil. England's supreme parodist, he was not above having literary fun. Max took his verses seriously enough to jot them in flyleaves or the margins of borrowed books. He versified eloquently on stray scraps of paper. One was even discovered in his top hat. To the editor there are obvious difficulties in collecting such an oeuvre to offer a full. Text. These have been heroically overcome by J.G. Riewald, the leading Beerbohm authority, for this definitive anthology of Max Beerbohm's poetry. Of the 138 poems here, fifty-one have never been collected before, and eighty-seven were not even published in Max's lifetime. There are variant readings in manuscript copies, including those written by Max himself, so Dr. Riewald's full textual notes will be welcome - particularly as Max didn't consider "accidentals" of. Punctuation and capitalization to be accidental at all. Comprehensive historical and biographical commentary, and glosses where necessary, provide any reader with necessary background, and twenty-nine caricatures match illustration to poem so Max can be seen at his best in both mediums. A unique and delightful humor - mocking elegance, mischievous wordplay, pricks that do not seriously wound - is always fundamental to Max. His is the art of incongruity, mixing trivia. With high seriousness to diffuse intellectual gaiety. Sir Max's poetry combines first-rate satire with persiflage, and clever exercises in pastiche with pure fun. And it is all here.".
- catalog alternative "Poems".
- catalog contributor b6393252.
- catalog contributor b6393253.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description ""Max," or as he is sometimes known, Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956), was a sophisticated caricaturist with both pen and drawing pencil. England's supreme parodist, he was not above having literary fun. Max took his verses seriously enough to jot them in flyleaves or the margins of borrowed books. He versified eloquently on stray scraps of paper. One was even discovered in his top hat. To the editor there are obvious difficulties in collecting such an oeuvre to offer a full.".
- catalog description "1. Carmen Becceriense -- 2. Elegiac couplets on Charterhouse -- 3. Damnosa Senectus -- 4. On W.S. Gilbert -- 5. Rondeau d'Admonition -- 6. What Did We Think? -- 7. In humble imitation of 'The Aesthete' by Mr. W.S. Gilbert -- 8. In Max's copy of J.K. Stephen's Lapsus Calami -- 9. Of Oscar -- 10. Knightsbridge Triolet -- 11. Of Maud, on starting for the Honeymoon -- 12. 'Doubt Divine' -- 13. Eudaimonia -- 14. Ballade de la Vie Joyeuse -- 15. Undergraduates -- 16. Poet and Publisher -- 17. Intentions -- 18. After John Keats -- 19. Winter in New York -- 20. On the imprint of the first English edition of The Works of Max Beerbohm -- 21. Ballade de Surprise -- 22. Sassenachs and Bagpipes -- 23. On a performance of Ali Baba -- 24. On Sidney Lee -- 25. 'The Absent-Minded Beggar' -- 26. An appreciation of Professor Mueller -- 27. In Max's copy of William Rothenstein's Goya -- 28. Ballade of 'Another Luminary' -- 29. For Violet Wyndham -- 30. To Dick -- 31. G.B.S. and Comic Relief.".
- catalog description "115. In Memoriam -- 116. Walter Sickert Again -- 117. Alternative ending to Yeats's 'The Ballad of the Foxhunter' -- 118. On Proust -- 119. Sonnet To The 'Most Distinguished Chancellor' That Oxford Has Had -- 120. On Sir Alfred Mond -- 121. In the Store-Room at King's Land -- 122. The Road to Zoagli -- 123. After Kipling's 'Recessional' -- 124. Writer's Block? -- 125. To the Editor of The Isis -- 126. Addition to Kipling's 'The Dead King (Edward VII)' -- 127. Evensong -- 128. On a Lady ... about whom Sydney Schiff had talked and laughed with Max -- 129. Old Surrey Saws and Sayings -- 130. After Leigh Hunt -- 131. Two World Wars -- 132. On the works of Herbert Read -- 133. February 14th 1945 -- 134. Othello and Caesar -- 135. Limerick -- 136. To Dr. D. -- 137. Mr. George Robey -- 138. Valedictory -- Select List of Books about Max Beerbohm.".
- catalog description "32. Epitaph for Cosmo Gordon-Lennox -- 33. Autobiography -- 34. A Ballade of Judges -- 35. In a copy of More's (or Shaw's or Wells's or Plato's or anybody's) Utopia -- 36. After Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads -- 37. Triolets by A.C.B. -- 38. Sir Felix Semon -- 39. To Henry James -- 40. In his own copy of Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen -- 41. Lines to be Hung in a Hotel Bedroom at Charing Cross -- 42. Invocation to Luther -- 43. Specimen Chapter of Forthcoming Work -- 44. Chorus of a song that might have been written by Albert Chevalier -- 45. Epistle by the Duke to his heir presumptive -- 46. To an Undergraduate Needing Rooms in Oxford -- 47. On the Uniform Edition of the works of George Meredith -- 48. On the Uniform Edition of the works of Henry James -- 49. On the Uniform Edition of the works of R.L. Stevenson -- 50. Drinking Song -- 51. A Sequelula to The Dynasts -- 52. After Hilaire Belloc -- 53. Again -- after Hilaire Belloc -- 54. Ballade Tragique a Double Refrain.".
- catalog description "55. Elegy on Any Lady / George Moore -- 56. Ballade of an Illustrious Freshman -- 57. A Ballade ad hoc -- 58. Mr. John Masefield -- 59. After W.B. Yeats -- 60. To W.S. -- 1914 -- 61. A Ballade of My Betters -- 62. Lines written by a Catholic Diabolist -- 63. To a Young Woman -- 64. Nocturne -- 65. Flashback -- 66. Brave Rover -- 67. Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housman -- 68. 'All In The Day's Work' / William Shakespeare -- 69. To Rabindranath Tagore -- 70. Iles Farm, Far Oakridge -- 71. To the Rev. Percy Dearmer -- 72. Frau Krupp's 'little dears' -- 73. Eli the Thatcher -- 74. To Max on his taking his only walk at Oakridge -- 75. On the origin and pronunciation of the name Cirencester -- 76. Seductions -- 77. Herbert Henry Asquith -- 78. Lines on a certain Friend's remarkable Faculty for swift Generalisation -- 79. In Max's top hat -- 80. Music-hall Chorus -- 81. Savonarola: A Tragedy / L. Brown -- 82. After Shakespeare I -- 83. After Shakespeare II -- 84. After Shakespeare III.".
- catalog description "85. In a letter to Edmund Gosse -- 86. Same Cottage -- but Another Song, of Another Season -- 87. The Old Volunteer -- 88. Ballad of a recurring anomaly in Berkeley Square -- 89. The Geddes Brothers -- 90. Lord Curzon -- 91. Mr. Augustus John -- 92. Mr. Bottomley -- 93. Mrs. Humphry Ward -- 94. Mr. Robert Smillie -- 95. The Duke of Northumberland -- 96. In Max's copy of Housman's A Shropshire Lad -- 97. Arthur Balfour on Oscar Browning -- 98. After Tom Moore -- 99. Vague Lyric by G.M. -- 100. In a copy of W.J. Turner's Paris and Helen -- 101. A Prayer -- 102. Sir Herbert Vansittart -- 103. Triolet (of a kind) -- 104. To Philip Guedalla -- 105. To H.G.-B. -- 106. On the top of a ladder -- 107. Another version -- 108. Ballade of an Old Fogey -- 109. In Max's copy of Ianthe Dunbar's The Edge of the Desert -- 110. Tracked -- 111. Triolets composed on a day when I thought ... that Harley wouldn't turn up for luncheon -- 112. A Luncheon -- 113. The Characters of Shakespeare -- 114. L.S.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 212) and indexes.".
- catalog description "Punctuation and capitalization to be accidental at all. Comprehensive historical and biographical commentary, and glosses where necessary, provide any reader with necessary background, and twenty-nine caricatures match illustration to poem so Max can be seen at his best in both mediums. A unique and delightful humor - mocking elegance, mischievous wordplay, pricks that do not seriously wound - is always fundamental to Max. His is the art of incongruity, mixing trivia.".
- catalog description "Text. These have been heroically overcome by J.G. Riewald, the leading Beerbohm authority, for this definitive anthology of Max Beerbohm's poetry. Of the 138 poems here, fifty-one have never been collected before, and eighty-seven were not even published in Max's lifetime. There are variant readings in manuscript copies, including those written by Max himself, so Dr. Riewald's full textual notes will be welcome - particularly as Max didn't consider "accidentals" of.".
- catalog description "With high seriousness to diffuse intellectual gaiety. Sir Max's poetry combines first-rate satire with persiflage, and clever exercises in pastiche with pure fun. And it is all here.".
- catalog extent "xxx, 221 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Collected verse.".
- catalog identifier "0208023909 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Collected verse.".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books,".
- catalog relation "Collected verse.".
- catalog subject "821/.912 20".
- catalog subject "English poetry.".
- catalog subject "PR6003.E4 A17 1994".
- catalog subject "Parodies, English.".
- catalog subject "Satire, English.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Carmen Becceriense -- 2. Elegiac couplets on Charterhouse -- 3. Damnosa Senectus -- 4. On W.S. Gilbert -- 5. Rondeau d'Admonition -- 6. What Did We Think? -- 7. In humble imitation of 'The Aesthete' by Mr. W.S. Gilbert -- 8. In Max's copy of J.K. Stephen's Lapsus Calami -- 9. Of Oscar -- 10. Knightsbridge Triolet -- 11. Of Maud, on starting for the Honeymoon -- 12. 'Doubt Divine' -- 13. Eudaimonia -- 14. Ballade de la Vie Joyeuse -- 15. Undergraduates -- 16. Poet and Publisher -- 17. Intentions -- 18. After John Keats -- 19. Winter in New York -- 20. On the imprint of the first English edition of The Works of Max Beerbohm -- 21. Ballade de Surprise -- 22. Sassenachs and Bagpipes -- 23. On a performance of Ali Baba -- 24. On Sidney Lee -- 25. 'The Absent-Minded Beggar' -- 26. An appreciation of Professor Mueller -- 27. In Max's copy of William Rothenstein's Goya -- 28. Ballade of 'Another Luminary' -- 29. For Violet Wyndham -- 30. To Dick -- 31. G.B.S. and Comic Relief.".
- catalog tableOfContents "115. In Memoriam -- 116. Walter Sickert Again -- 117. Alternative ending to Yeats's 'The Ballad of the Foxhunter' -- 118. On Proust -- 119. Sonnet To The 'Most Distinguished Chancellor' That Oxford Has Had -- 120. On Sir Alfred Mond -- 121. In the Store-Room at King's Land -- 122. The Road to Zoagli -- 123. After Kipling's 'Recessional' -- 124. Writer's Block? -- 125. To the Editor of The Isis -- 126. Addition to Kipling's 'The Dead King (Edward VII)' -- 127. Evensong -- 128. On a Lady ... about whom Sydney Schiff had talked and laughed with Max -- 129. Old Surrey Saws and Sayings -- 130. After Leigh Hunt -- 131. Two World Wars -- 132. On the works of Herbert Read -- 133. February 14th 1945 -- 134. Othello and Caesar -- 135. Limerick -- 136. To Dr. D. -- 137. Mr. George Robey -- 138. Valedictory -- Select List of Books about Max Beerbohm.".
- catalog tableOfContents "32. Epitaph for Cosmo Gordon-Lennox -- 33. Autobiography -- 34. A Ballade of Judges -- 35. In a copy of More's (or Shaw's or Wells's or Plato's or anybody's) Utopia -- 36. After Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads -- 37. Triolets by A.C.B. -- 38. Sir Felix Semon -- 39. To Henry James -- 40. In his own copy of Caricatures of Twenty-Five Gentlemen -- 41. Lines to be Hung in a Hotel Bedroom at Charing Cross -- 42. Invocation to Luther -- 43. Specimen Chapter of Forthcoming Work -- 44. Chorus of a song that might have been written by Albert Chevalier -- 45. Epistle by the Duke to his heir presumptive -- 46. To an Undergraduate Needing Rooms in Oxford -- 47. On the Uniform Edition of the works of George Meredith -- 48. On the Uniform Edition of the works of Henry James -- 49. On the Uniform Edition of the works of R.L. Stevenson -- 50. Drinking Song -- 51. A Sequelula to The Dynasts -- 52. After Hilaire Belloc -- 53. Again -- after Hilaire Belloc -- 54. Ballade Tragique a Double Refrain.".
- catalog tableOfContents "55. Elegy on Any Lady / George Moore -- 56. Ballade of an Illustrious Freshman -- 57. A Ballade ad hoc -- 58. Mr. John Masefield -- 59. After W.B. Yeats -- 60. To W.S. -- 1914 -- 61. A Ballade of My Betters -- 62. Lines written by a Catholic Diabolist -- 63. To a Young Woman -- 64. Nocturne -- 65. Flashback -- 66. Brave Rover -- 67. Thomas Hardy and A.E. Housman -- 68. 'All In The Day's Work' / William Shakespeare -- 69. To Rabindranath Tagore -- 70. Iles Farm, Far Oakridge -- 71. To the Rev. Percy Dearmer -- 72. Frau Krupp's 'little dears' -- 73. Eli the Thatcher -- 74. To Max on his taking his only walk at Oakridge -- 75. On the origin and pronunciation of the name Cirencester -- 76. Seductions -- 77. Herbert Henry Asquith -- 78. Lines on a certain Friend's remarkable Faculty for swift Generalisation -- 79. In Max's top hat -- 80. Music-hall Chorus -- 81. Savonarola: A Tragedy / L. Brown -- 82. After Shakespeare I -- 83. After Shakespeare II -- 84. After Shakespeare III.".
- catalog tableOfContents "85. In a letter to Edmund Gosse -- 86. Same Cottage -- but Another Song, of Another Season -- 87. The Old Volunteer -- 88. Ballad of a recurring anomaly in Berkeley Square -- 89. The Geddes Brothers -- 90. Lord Curzon -- 91. Mr. Augustus John -- 92. Mr. Bottomley -- 93. Mrs. Humphry Ward -- 94. Mr. Robert Smillie -- 95. The Duke of Northumberland -- 96. In Max's copy of Housman's A Shropshire Lad -- 97. Arthur Balfour on Oscar Browning -- 98. After Tom Moore -- 99. Vague Lyric by G.M. -- 100. In a copy of W.J. Turner's Paris and Helen -- 101. A Prayer -- 102. Sir Herbert Vansittart -- 103. Triolet (of a kind) -- 104. To Philip Guedalla -- 105. To H.G.-B. -- 106. On the top of a ladder -- 107. Another version -- 108. Ballade of an Old Fogey -- 109. In Max's copy of Ianthe Dunbar's The Edge of the Desert -- 110. Tracked -- 111. Triolets composed on a day when I thought ... that Harley wouldn't turn up for luncheon -- 112. A Luncheon -- 113. The Characters of Shakespeare -- 114. L.S.".
- catalog title "Collected verse / Max Beerbohm ; edited with an introduction and notes by J.G. Riewald.".
- catalog title "Poems".
- catalog type "text".