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From Chaucer to Vikram Seth and Victoria Wood; from Byron to John Updike; from Augustan satire to advertising jingles; from G. K. Chesterton to Wendy Cope - this superb anthology is notable above all for its breadth. It is truly international in scope, bringing together poets from far beyond the British Isles. Drawing on many different types of verse, from epigrams to street ballads, from clerihew to music-hall lyrics, from the double-dactyl of the calypso, it offers an exceptionally wide range of comic pleasures. The poems in this collection are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful; written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. The established classics of comic verse, writers such as Tom Hood, W. S. Gilbert, and Ogden Nash, are represented in force, but many unfamiliar or unexpected names are also included; so are many recent writers - the classics of the future. This collection undoubtedly contains matter of great historical interest, but the emphasis throughout is firmly on enjoyment.
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Review from previous edition the laughter quotient is greatly boosted by many unfamiliar delights (Times Literary Supplement)
Mr Gross has put enough plums in his pudding to cheer the most melancholy reader. (Ned Sherrin, Evening Standard)
John Gross has rightly relied on instinct, selected widely, and spared us too much agonising about what constitutes comic verse. (Literary Review)
hugely enjoyable (London Evening Standard)
Almost every quotation in this new Oxford collection amused me ... This is a good anthology. (F.E. Pardoe, Birmingham Post)
it is hard to voice any complaint whatever about an anthology so replete with riches - one, moreover, upholding the idea of humour as a by-product of an idiosyncratic vision, with ease-of-manner resulting from a cast-iron control ... True comic verse, as we find here, is always inseparable from comic verve. (Gerald Jacobs, The Spectator)
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Mr Gross has put enough plums in his pudding to cheer the most melancholy reader. (Ned Sherrin, Evening Standard)
John Gross has rightly relied on instinct, selected widely, and spared us too much agonising about what constitutes comic verse. (Literary Review)
hugely enjoyable (London Evening Standard)
Almost every quotation in this new Oxford collection amused me ... This is a good anthology. (F.E. Pardoe, Birmingham Post)
it is hard to voice any complaint whatever about an anthology so replete with riches - one, moreover, upholding the idea of humour as a by-product of an idiosyncratic vision, with ease-of-manner resulting from a cast-iron control ... True comic verse, as we find here, is always inseparable from comic verve. (Gerald Jacobs, The Spectator)
John Gross is the author of 'The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters' (1973) and editor of 'The Oxford Book of Aphorisms' (1983), among other publications. He was editor of the Times Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, and is currently theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph.
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- PublisherOxford Paperbacks
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 019284086X
- ISBN 13 9780192840868
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages560
- EditorGross John
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