The Penguin Book of Satirical VerseEdward Lucie-Smith 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 |