ISBN: 0571051324
Godina izdanja: 1971
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Arnold Silcock - Verse and Worse
Faber & Faber 1971
288 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

V. H. Drummond (illustrator). `Introduction, Foreword, Acknowledgments : Reader, there is no Introduction to this book, But if for information you`ve a mind You`ll findthe foreword`s got stuck in behind (Unless you`re too darned indolent to look.) ` A Private Collection by Arnold Silcock. 270 pp. plus: Index of Authors, Index of First Lines, Index of Titles . Poems are organized thematicly, e.g. `Parodies and Spites`, ` The Lunatic Fringe `, `Rhyming Proverbs` etc.

This is a collection of poetry, verse, and rhymes, ranging in length between a couple of lines, to a couple of pages. It includes the witty, the somber, the lewd, the sweet, and the tasteless. The perfect thing to pick up for only a few minutes here or there. There`s not too much of any one type, and Silcock`s introductions to sections are nice, and not too long. There are the works by well known poets, and then there`s the anonymous works, which were part of oral culture, or was carved on tombstones hundreds of years ago. But there`s also the poems which were sent in private letters by assorted people, the epigrams made up by politicians, and the short works that were printed in newspapers, magazines, and periodicals.

Full contents:
Good Old Guzzling and Drinking Days 15
Accent on Accent 28
Potted Biography 42
Philosophical and Metaphysical, Psychological and Sometimes Quizzical 58
Playtime on Parnassus 72
Parodies and Spites 88
Grave Shades from the Churchyard Gaze On Gay Graves that the Churchyard Shades 112
Rhyming Proverbs 130
Come Live with Me and Be My Love 137
Cats and Dogs 162
The Frolicsome Kick of the Limerick 187
Gay yet Wistful 192
The Lunatic Fringe 208
Whimsies 220
Old School Books, Samplers, Sundials, Bells, With Wise-Saw Jingles Weave Their Spells 233
Queer People 244
Backward-Foreword with Acknowledgments 265
Indexes 271


Fiction, Poetry, Classics, Humor, 0571051324