dc.contributor.author | Wallace, Ronald | eng |
dc.contributor.corporatename | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.date.issued | 1984 | eng |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references and index. | eng |
dc.description.abstract | This study will examine the neglected comic element in American poetry, placing it in the rich and distinctive traditions of American humor. | eng |
dc.description.digitization | Digitized at the University of Missouri--Columbia MU Libraries Digitization Lab in 2012. Digitized at 600 dpi with Zeutschel, OS 15000 scanner. Access copy, available in MOspace, is 400 dpi, grayscale. | eng |
dc.description.tableofcontents | Introduction : take care to sell your horse before he dies -- Walt Whitman : stucco'd with quadrupeds and birds all over -- Emily Dickinson : A day! Help! Help! Another day! -- Robert Frost : fighting on both sides at once -- Wallace Stevens : the revenge of music on bassoons -- John Berryman : Me, wag -- Envoi : dance with dread and tweedle. | eng |
dc.format.extent | 235 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/15734 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.relation.ispartof | University of Missouri Press (MU) | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcollection | University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri System. Office of Academic Affairs (UM). University of Missouri Press | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | Humorous poetry, American -- History and criticism | eng |
dc.subject.lcsh | American wit and humor -- History and criticism | eng |
dc.title | God be with the clown : humor in American poetry | eng |
dc.type | Book | eng |