The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad VerseD.B. Wyndham Lewis, Charles Lee New York Review of Books, 30/04/2003 - 328 páginas The editors of this legendary and hilarious anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a simple matter . . . On the contrary . . . Bad Verse has its canons, like Good Verse. There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse. It has been the constant preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefiy good Bad Verse." Here indeed one finds the best of the worst of the greatest poets of the English language, masterpieces of the maladroit by Dryden, Wordsworth, and Keats, among many others, together with an index ("Maiden, feathered, uncontrolled appetites of, 59;. . . Manure, adjudged a fit subject for the Muse, 91") that is itself an inspired work of folly. |
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The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis,Charles Lee Visualização de excertos - 1952 |
The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse D.B. Wyndham Lewis,Charles Lee Pré-visualização indisponível - 2003 |
The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse D.B. Wyndham Lewis,Charles Lee Pré-visualização indisponível - 2003 |
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