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Irreverent, playful, and inventive, the American light verse of the past century offers a brimming feast of urbane pleasures. Bubbling over with engaging parodies, sparkling aphorisms, and wisecracking asides, the poems gathered here display a sure-footed handling of the poets art. The foremost practitioners of light verse took delight not only in what they had to say but in their precise manner of saying it, writes John Hollander in his introduction. What makes it mean something is . . . the unique pleasure that poets and readers alike can take in that craft. The poets in this volume included journalists, playwrights, screenwriters, and also some of the greatest poets of the century. We have Frost, Eliot, Millay, and Cummings, Don Marquis free-verse tales of Archy and Mehitabel, Newman Levys comic twists on grand opera, Samuel Hoffensteins disenchanted parsing of romantic sentiment, Dorothy Parkers bitter epigrams, Ogden Nashs brilliantly funny exercises in irregular all are among the highlights from a centurys worth of poetic humor. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets

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Author

John Hollander; Mark Melnick; Chip Kidd

Publisher

New York: The Library of America

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781931082495

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Poetry

Rating

3.36 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14