Satire : a critical anthology / edited, with introd., by John Russell & Ashley Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Honey, 1902-1973.

Brown, Ashley, 1923-2011, author.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire.

Genre:

Satire.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 420 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cleveland : World Pub. Co., 1967.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Prose and drama Cyclops / Euripides

Dinner with Trimalchio; from the Satyricon / Gaius Petronius

Menippus and Cereberus; from dialogues of the dead. Hermes and Charon; from dialogues of the dead. Eros and Zeus; from dialogues of the gods. Poseidon and Hermes; from dialogues of the gods / Lucian

Charon; from the colloquies / Desiderius Erasmus

How Lazaro entered the service of a squire; from the life of Lazarillo de Tormes / Anonymous

Love is the best doctor / Molèire

Letter XLVIII: Usbek to Rhedi, at Venice; from the Persian letters / Charles Louis, Baron de Montesquieu

Modest prpbosal / Jonathan Swift

Day of the dead of 1836: Fígaro in the cemetery / Mariano José de Larra

Tournament; from a Connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court / Mark Twain

Fragment of a Greek tragedy / A. E. Housman

Man that was used up / Edgar Allan Poe

Final request / Machado de Assis

Report to an academy / Franz Kafka

Brotcotnaz / Wyndam Lewis

Bedbug / Vladimir Mayakovsky

Pt. 2. Verse Ninth satire; from the first book of satires / Horace

Fifth satire / Juvenal

Confession of Sloth; from piers plowman / William Langland

Friar's Prologue, Friar's tale, and Summoner's prologue; from the canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer

Against Dundas / John Skelton

Gout and the spider; from fables. Animals and the plague; from fables / Jean de la Fontaine

Sonnet LXVI: tired with all these, for restful death I cry. Sonnet CXXX: my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun / William Shakespeare

Will / John Donne

Maimed debauchee / John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester

Hudibras / Samuel Butler

Flecknoe, and English priest at Rome / Andrew Marvell

Mac Flecknoe / John Dryden

Rape of the lock / Alexander Pope

Dedication / Charles Churchill

Holy Willie's prayer / Robert Burns

Slave ship / Heinrich Heine

Bambine / Tristan Corbière

Westminster Abbey / John Betjeman

Captain Carpenter / John Crowe Ransom

I sing of Olaf / E. E. Cummings

Hippopotamus / T. S. Eliot

Kings / A. D. Hope

Ode to our young pro-consuls of the air / Allen Tate

Pt. 3. Epigrams Epigrams / Archilochus

Epigrams / Martial

Maxims / François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Epigrams / Oscar Wilde

Definittions; from the devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce

Poems and epigrams; from the exclusions of a rhyme / J. V. Cunningham.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

OCLC:

1169671