Format:
Book
Title:
Martin Gardner's favorite poetic parodies / edited by Martin Gardner.
Call Number:
821.08 Martin
Publisher, Date:
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2001.
Description:
245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
The editor has assembled his favorite examples of the lighter side of poetry, many by famous authors in their own right (Robert Sherwood, G.K. Chesterton, A.E. Houseman, Bret Harte). The original poem appears first, followed by its parody.
Subjects:
Parodies.
English poetry.
American poetry.
Other Author:
Gardner, Martin, 1914-2010.
Other Title:
Poetic parodies
Contents:
Memory / Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Rock me to sleep / Elizabeth Akers Allen -- The night has a thousand eyes / Francis William Bourdillon -- The golf links / Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn -- The ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- To a fat lady seen from the train / Frances Cornford -- Ben Bolt / Thomas Dunn English -- The house by the side of the road / Sam Walter Foss -- The road not taken ; Stopping by woods on a snowy evening ; Fire and ice / Robert Frost -- It couldn't be done / Eddie Guest -- I remember, I remember / Thomas Hood -- Abou Ben Adhem / Leigh Hunt -- Jenny kiss'd me / Leigh Hunt -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- Trees / Joyce Kilmer -- If ; Tommy ; Gunga Din / Rudyard Kipling -- Excelsior Hiawatha ; The village blacksmith ; The day is done ; A psalm of life ; The arrow and the song / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow --
My candle / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- News item / Dorothy Parker -- The bells ; Annabel Lee ; Ulalume ; The raven / Edgar Allen Poe -- The lost chord / Adelaide Ann Proctor -- Fog / Carl Sandburg -- The shooting of Dan McGrew / Robert Service -- Ozymanias / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- The Battle of Blenheim / Robert Southey -- Happy thought / Robert Louise Stevenson -- The star / Jane Taylor -- Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Beautiful snow / John Whitaker Watson -- Maud Muller / John Greenleaf Whittier -- The burial of Sir John Moore / Charles Wolfe -- The old oaken bucket / Samuel Woodworth -- Mary's little lamb / Sarah Hale -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement Clarke Moore -- The purple cow / Gelett Burgess.
ISBN:
1573929255 (hardcover : alk. paper)