The Oxford Book of Satirical VerseGeoffrey Grigson Oxford University Press, 1980 - 454 pagine A witty, entertaining anthology contains more than two hundred wickedly enjoyable little-known verse selections from such masters of satire as Dryden, Swift, Donne, Byron, Pope, Auden, and Cummings. |
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London Lickpenny | 1 |
WILLIAM DUNBAR ?1465?1530 | 10 |
BEN JONSON 15721637 | 18 |
JOSEPH HALL 15741656 | 32 |
SAMUEL BUTLER 16121680 | 38 |
HENRY VAUGHAN 16211695 | 45 |
ANDREW MARVELL 16211678 | 47 |
from The Last Instructions to a Painter | 48 |
from The Duellist | 215 |
The Dedication | 219 |
ROBERT LLOYD 17331764 | 224 |
EVAN LLOYD 17341776 | 227 |
JOHN WOLCOT PETER PINDAR 17381819 | 228 |
GEORGE CRABBE 17541832 | 229 |
To the Marquis of Graham on his Marriage | 233 |
WILLIAM BLAKE 17571827 | 234 |
CHARLES COTTON 16301687 | 50 |
On Tobacco | 53 |
JOHN DRYDEN 16311700 | 56 |
from Prologue to The Spanish Friar 25 On Jacob Tonson his Publisher | 57 |
from Absalom and Achitophel | 58 |
Mac Flecknoe | 60 |
from The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel | 66 |
The Third Part | 69 |
from Cymon and Iphigenia 31 from Juvenals Sixth Satire | 70 |
32 | 74 |
SIR CHARLES SEDLEY ?16391701 | 75 |
Plain Dealings Downfall JOHN WILMOT EARL OF ROchester 16471680 | 76 |
Impromptu on Charles II | 81 |
The Disabled Debauchee | 87 |
Upon Nothing | 88 |
from The Royal Angler | 90 |
ALEXANDER RADCLIFFE A 16691696 | 91 |
45 | 92 |
47 | 96 |
48 | 109 |
SIR SAMUEL GARTH 16611719 | 112 |
MATTHEW PRIOR 16641721 | 118 |
JOHN ARBUTHNOT 16671735 | 143 |
JOHN GAY 16851732 | 153 |
WILLIAM DIAPER ?16861717 | 155 |
The Vicar of Bray | 158 |
The Poets Prayer | 160 |
HENRY CAREY ?16871743 | 162 |
ALEXANDER POpe 16881744 | 164 |
from The Rape of the Lock | 165 |
from An Essay on Criticism | 166 |
from An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot | 168 |
Of the Characters of Women | 170 |
from Epistle to Richard Boyle Earl of Burlington | 172 |
from The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace Imitated | 174 |
from The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated | 175 |
from Epilogue to the Satires | 176 |
from The Dunciad | 179 |
RICHARD SAVAGE ?16971743 | 184 |
from The Authors of the Town | 186 |
SOAME JENYNS 17041787 | 188 |
from An Epistle to Lord Lovelace | 189 |
from The Modern Fine Lady | 191 |
Dr Johnson | 193 |
from The Vanity of Human Wishes | 194 |
A Short Song of Congratulation | 196 |
EDWARD MOORE 17121757 | 197 |
WILLIAM WHITEHEAD 17151785 | 198 |
OLIVER GOLDSMITH 17301774 | 199 |
from The Deserted Village | 200 |
WILLIAM COWPER 17311800 | 202 |
or A Review of Schools | 204 |
CHARLES CHURCHILL 17311764 | 207 |
from The Author | 210 |
from The Ghost | 212 |
from Night An Epistle to Robert Lloyd | 213 |
from The Times | 214 |
ROBERT BURNS 17591796 | 235 |
from A Dedication to G H Esq | 238 |
The Holy Fair | 239 |
The Mutual Congratulations of the Poets Anna Seward and Hayley | 246 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE 17721834 | 247 |
THOMAS MOORE 17791852 | 253 |
EBENEZER ELLIOTT 17811849 | 269 |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 17921822 | 314 |
THOMAS HOOD 17991845 | 324 |
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY LORD MACAULAY | 326 |
WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED 18021839 | 332 |
CHARLES DICKENS 18121870 | 340 |
CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON LEWIS CARROLL | 349 |
A E HOUSMAN 18591936 | 356 |
Carl Hamblin | 361 |
Editor Whedon | 362 |
EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON 18691935 | 363 |
HILAIRE BELLoc 18701953 | 364 |
Lord Lundy | 365 |
On a General Election | 367 |
Another on the Same | 368 |
To Dives | 369 |
STEPHEN CRANE 18711900 | 371 |
A Luncheon | 372 |
An Ode 373 | 373 |
WYNDHAM LEWIS 18841957 | 377 |
H LAWRENCE 18851930 | 383 |
When Wilt Thou Teach the People? | 385 |
EZRA POUND 18851972 | 386 |
from LHomme Moyen Sensuel | 387 |
SIEGFRIED SASSOON 18861967 | 389 |
JOHN CROWE RANSOM 18881974 | 390 |
ROBERT NICHOLS 18931944 | 391 |
sing of Olaf glad and big | 393 |
ROBERT GRAVES 1895 | 394 |
Tilth | 395 |
EDGELL RICKWORD 1898 | 397 |
The Contemporary Muse | 400 |
YVOR WINTERS 19001968 | 401 |
A Good Resolution | 406 |
from The Wayzgoose | 407 |
STEVIE SMITH 19021971 | 409 |
PHYLLIS MCGINLEY 1905 | 410 |
How to Start a War | 411 |
from Spectators Guide to Contemporary Art | 412 |
SIR JOHN BETJEMAN 1906 | 413 |
Huxley Hall | 414 |
In Westminster Abbey | 415 |
The Unknown Citizen | 416 |
from Letter to Lord Byron | 420 |
LOUIS MACNEICE 19071963 | 424 |
CLIVE JAMES 1939 | 437 |
50 | 444 |
90 | 445 |
INDEX OF AUTHORS | 453 |
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