American wits : an anthology of light verse /
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| Imprint: | [New York] : Library of America, c2003. |
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| Description: | xxv, 194 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American poets project |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5001494 |
Table of Contents:
- Corporal / Ambrose Bierce
- Elegy / Ambrose Bierce
- Two Men / Edwin Arlington Robinson
- A Mighty Runner / Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Famous Baths and Bathers / Crolyn Wells
- Elegy / Arthur Guiterman
- Philadelphia / Arthur Guiterman
- Seattle / Arthur Guiterman
- Everything In Its Place / Arthur Guiterman
- On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness / Arthur Guiterman
- The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet / Guy Wetmore Carryl
- The Harmonious Heedlessness of Little Boy Blue / Guy Wetmore Carryl
- The Wrights' Biplane / Robert Frost
- In Dives' Dive / Robert Frost
- In a Poem / Robert Frost
- The song of mehitabel / Don Marquis
- Archy at the zoo / Don Marquis
- from mehitabel's extensive past / Don Marquis
- Ballade of the under side / Don Marquis
- Factory Windows Are Always Broken / Vachel Lindsay
- A Colloquial Reply: To Any Newsboy / Vachel Lindsay
- Niagara / Vachel Lindsay
- Kalamazoo / Vachel Lindsay
- Us Potes / Franklin P. Adams
- Ballade of Schopenhauer's Philosophy / Franklin P. Adams
- The Rich Man / Franklin P. Adams
- To a Thesaurus / Franklin P. Adams
- "Lines Where Beauty Lingers" / Franklin P. Adams
- An Immorality / Ezra Pound
- Ancient Music / Ezra Pound
- The Naming of Cats / T. S. Eliot
- Macavity: The Mystery Cat / T. S. Eliot
- Tannhauser / Newman Levy
- Carmen / Newman Levy
- Rigoletto / Newman Levy
- Pelleas and Melisande / Newman Levy
- Survey of Literature / John Crowe Ransom
- An Unusual Combination in Verses of This Character / Samuel Hoffenstein
- from The Notebook of a Schnook / Samuel Hoffenstein
- from Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing / Samuel Hoffenstein
- 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 / Samuel Hoffenstein
- The Sexes / Samuel Hoffenstein
- Elegy Written in a Country Coal-Bin / Christopher Morley
- "A Pre-Raphaelite" / Christopher Morley
- Upper family / Maxwell Dodenheim
- First Fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Second Fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Thusday / Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Grown-Up / Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Ozymandias Revisited / Morris Bishop
- Eschatology / Morris Bishop
- We Have Been Here Before / Morris Bishop
- "A joker who haunts Monticello" / Morris Bishop
- Flowers of Rhetoric / Morris Bishop
- Ah, To Be In ... / Morris Bishop
- Portrait of the Artist / Dorothy Parker
- Chant for Dark Hours / Dorothy Parker
- Unfortunate Coincidence / Dorothy Parker
- Comment / Dorothy Parker
- Words of Comfort to be Scratched on a Mirror / Dorothy Parker
- News Item / Dorothy Parker
- Song of One of the Girls / Dorothy Parker
- Fighting Words / Dorothy Parker
- Inscription for the Ceiling of a Bedroom / Dorothy Parker
- Experience / Dorothy Parker
- Neigher Bloody Nor Bowed / Dorothy Parker
- Bohemia / Dorothy Parker
- Story / Dorothy Parker
- Frustration / Dorothy Parker
- Resume / Dorothy Parker
- One Perfect Rose / Dorothy Parker
- Ballade at Thirty-Five / Dorothy Parker
- Healed / Dorothy Parker
- Pour Prendre Conge / Dorothy Parker
- Coda / Dorothy Parker
- The Danger of Writing Defiant Verse / Dorothy Parker
- The Actress / Dorothy Parker
- "The way to hump a cow" / E. E. Cummings
- Obit on Parnassus / F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Sportif / David McCord
- History of Education / David McCord
- Convalescence / David McCord
- Week End Bid I / John Wheelwright
- Week End Bid II / John Wheelwright
- Lion / John Wheelwright
- Marble-Top / E. B. White
- I Paint What I See / E. B. White
- Village Revisited / E. B. White
- Old Story / Kenneth Fearing
- Aphrodite Metropolis (III) / Kenneth Fearing
- Ballad of the Salvation Army / Kenneth Fearing
- Death and Transfiguration of Fourteenth Street / Kenneth Fearing
- Cultural Notes / Kenneth Fearing
- Dirge / Kenneth Fearing
- Spring Comes to Murray Hill / Ogden Nash
- Watchman, What of the First First Lady? / Ogden Nash
- Please Pass the Biscuit / Ogden Nash
- The Termite / Ogden Nash
- The Panther / Ogden Nash
- A Beginner's Guide to the Ocean / Ogden Nash
- Kind of an Ode to Duty / Ogden Nash
- No Wonder Our Fathers Died / Ogden Nash
- A Necessary Dirge / Ogden Nash
- The Private Dining Room / Ogden Nash
- What's in a Name? Some Letter I Always Forget / Ogden Nash
- Arthur / Ogden Nash
- The Song of Songs / Ogden Nash
- View from a Suburban Window / Phyllis McGinley
- Trinity Place / Phyllis McGinley
- Why, Some of My Best Friends Are Women / Phyllis McGinley
- Evening Musicale / Phyllis McGinley
- Blues for a Melodeon / Phyllis McGinley
- New England Pilgrimage / Phyllis McGinley
- The Day After Sunday / Phyllis McGinley
- Mr. Rockefeller's Hat / Helen Bevington
- To Helen / Helen Bevington
- The Princess and the Pea / Helen Bevington
- Ballade of Poetic Material / Helen Bevington
- Under Which Lyre / W. H. Auden
- from Academic Graffiti: "My first name, Wystan" / W. H. Auden
- John Milton / W. H. Auden
- Oscar Wilde / W. H. Auden
- Parable / W. H. Auden
- from Uncoupled Couplets / William Cole
- The Dover Bitch / Anthony Hecht
- Handicap / Anthony Hecht
- It Never Rains ... / Anthony Hecht
- Firmness / Anthony Hecht
- From the Grove Press / Anthony Hecht
- Down There on a Visit / Anthony Hecht
- "From the bathing machine came a din" / Edward Gorey
- "The Proctor buys a pupil ices" / Edward Gorey
- Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams / Kenneth Koch
- La Ville de Nice / Kenneth Koch
- Above All That? / James Merrill
- Neo-Classic / James Merrill
- Tomorrows / James Merrill
- Japanese Beetles / X. J. Kennedy
- Said ("J. Alfred Prufrock to") / George Starbuck
- Said ("Agatha Christie to") / George Starbuck
- Said ("Dame Edith Evans to") / George Starbuck
- Said ("J. Edgar Hoover to") / George Starbuck
- High Renaissance / George Starbuck
- Working Habits / George Starbuck
- Boston / George Starbuck
- On the Antiquity of Warfare / George Starbuck.
