First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful introduction to burlesque literature, a term used by critics from the seventh-century onwards to describe work in which an incongruity between serious subject-matter and style is used to provoke laughter. It examines the four main types of burlesque writing: Travesty, Hudibrastic, Parody and the Mock-Poem, as well as dramatic burlesques.
First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful introduction to burlesque literature, a term used by critics from the seventh-century onwards...
First published in 1974, this book provides a helpful overview to the ode. After introducing the reader to classical odes, it goes on to trace the development of two major types: the Pindaric ode and the Horatian ode. The book concludes with a study of odes from the nineteenth and twentieth-centuries.
This book will be of particular interest to those studying poetry, verse form and literature more generally.
First published in 1974, this book provides a helpful overview to the ode. After introducing the reader to classical odes, it goes on to trace the ...
