The Penguin Book of Satirical Verse

Front Cover
Edward Lucie-Smith
Penguin, 1968 - English poetry - 311 pages
An anthology of English satire from Langland in the Middle Ages to Christopher Logue in our own century.

Contents

Acknowledgements
11
Notes on the Selection and the Text
27
From Piers Plowman
33
Women Women Love of Women Maketh
41
From The Egloges
49
From
55
Book II Satire VI
66
An Epigramme Called the Honest
74
From The Love of Fame Satire IV
159
From Of the Characters of Women
166
Fulvia a Poem
172
From London
178
74
185
From The Cits Country Box
192
From Instructions to a Celebrated Laureat
204
A Receipt for Writing a Novel
211

The Distracted Puritane
79
From A Satire
88
From Hudibras Part 1 Canto III
97
Tyburne Cheated
104
Satyr against Reason
112
From An Essay upon
119
A Pindaricque On
130
Verses Wrote in a Ladys Ivory Table
136
From The Reformation of Manners
142
From St Pauls Church or The Protes
149
From The Art of Dress
153
Journal of Sir Valentine Sleek
219
Song
231
From The Transcenden
237
From The Season
244
From The Age of Stucco
251
Lord Lundy
258
From The Georgiad
265
The Unknown Citizen
273
Period Piece
279
Notes
285
Index of First Lines
309

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