Auden, Wystan Hugh (ed.);
The Oxford Book of Light Verse
Oxford University Press 1973, 553 pages
ISBN 0198813317
topics: | poetry | anthology | humour
Light verse makes more stringent demands on the writer's technique [than high verse]. ... A concert pianist is allowed a wrong note here and there; a juggler is not allowed to drop a plate. --Kingsley Amis, introduction (A)n interpretation of any man's humor... is as futile as explaining a spider's web in terms of geometry. --E.B. White, introduction to Don Marquis' the lives and times of archy and mehitabel Richard Armour on ketchup: Shake and shake The catsup bottle None will come, And then a lot'll.