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Title

• Very bad poetry / edited by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras.

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, 1997.

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Additional Authors

• Petras, Kathryn
• Petras, Ross

Description

xvii, 126 p.; 19 cm.

Subjects

• Bathetic poetry
• American poetry
• English poetry

Genre/Form

Bathetic poetry

Note

• "A Vintage original"--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

John Armstrong (1709-1779). The Art of Preserving Health -- Alfred Austin (1835-1913). The Human Tragedy. Go Away, Death! The Wind Speaks -- T. Baker (fl. 1850s). The Steam Engine -- The Most Convoluted Syntax: On a Procession with the Prince of Wales / Joseph Gwyer -- Samuel Bentley (fl. 1760s). The River Dove: A Lyric Pastoral -- Mrs. Marion Albina Bigelow (fl. 1850s). Children Disinterred. Two Smothered Children -- E.E. Bradford (1860-1944). The Tree of Knowledge. His Mother Drinks -- The Most Lurid Account of Tragedy: Calamity in London; Family of Ten Burned to Death / William McGonagall -- Colonel I.J. Brittain (fl. 1918). The Tragedy of Ida Ball Warren and Samuel Christie -- Fred Emerson Brooks (fl. 1894). The Stuttering Lover. Old Eagle -- Solyman Brown (1790-1876). The Dentologia -- A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth -- T.E. Brown (1830-1897). Between Our Folding Lips -- Wallace Bruce (fl. 1907). A Holland Brick -- H.C. Bunner (fl. 1880s). In School House: A Real Romance. Their Wedding Journey -- J. Gordon Coogler (1865-1901). Alas Carolina. The Lover's Return on a Bicycle. [Untitled]. How Strange Are Dreams! Byron. A Pretty Girl. More Care for the Neck Than for the Intellect. God Correctly Understood -- The Poem Showing the Most Mathematical Genius: The Round of the Clock / Frederick B. Needham -- Eliza Cook (1818-1889). The Surgeon's Knife. The Carrion Crow. Lines Among the Leaves. Song of the Sea Weed. A Pathetic Lament -- Lillian E. Curtis (fl. 1870s). Only One Eye. The Potato. The Two Bears -- J.P. Dunn (fl. 1917). Kansas. An Ode to Governor Capper -- Edward Edwin Foot (fl. 1867). Jane Hollybrand; or, Virtue Rewarded. The Homeward-Bound Passenger Ship. [Untitled] -- The Worst Baby Talk Poem: The New Baby / Fred Emerson Brooks -- Sam Walter Foss (1858-1911). "Hullo!" -- James Grainger (1721-1767). The Sugar Cane. Bryan and Pereene: A West Indian Ballad -- Matthew Green (1697-1737). The Spleen -- Joseph Gwyer (1835-?). To Alfred Gwyer. Ode on the Visit of the Shah of Persia. On the Death of the Duke of Clarence. On the Funeral of Dr. Livingston -- Nancy Luce (fl. 1860s). Poor Little Hearts -- William McGonagall (1830-1902). The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay. The Tay Bridge Disaster. An Address to the New Tay Bridge. A Tale of the Sea. The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie. The Funeral of the German Emperor. The Famous Tay Whale. The Late Sir John Ogilvy. The Royal Review. The Sprig of Moss. The Clepington Catastrophe -- The Most Anticlimactic Poem: The Grand Rapids Cricket Club / Julia A. Moore -- James McIntyre (1827-1906). Ode on the Mammoth Cheese. Oxford Cheese Ode. Prophecy of a Ten Ton Cheese. Disaster to Steamer Victoria at London. Potato Bug Exterminators. Wooden Leg -- George Meredith (1828-1909). The Empty Purse: A Sermon to Our Later Prodigal Son -- Owen Meredith (Robert Lytton, Earl of Lytton) (1831-1891). Going Back Again. The Vampyre. Midges -- The Worst Attempts at Rhymes by Very Bad Poets: In a Book-store / Francis Saltus Saltus -- The Worst Attempts at Rhymes by Very Bad Poets: The Light-Bearer of Liberty / J.W. Scholl -- The Worst Attempts at Rhymes by Very Bad Poets: Indian Corn / William Cook -- James Milligan (fl. 1800s). The Science of Geology -- Bertha Moore (fl. 1890s). A Child's Thought -- Julia A. Moore (1847-1920). Hattie House. Little Libbie. Roll On, Time, Roll On. Croquet by Moonlight. Ashtabula Disaster. Hiram Helsel. The Brave Page Boys. The Author's Early Life -- Edward Newman (fl. 1840). Earwigs -- Georgia Bailey Parrington (fl. 1907). An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy -- Robert Peter (fl. 1800s). On Time, Death, and Eternity -- The Worst Tribute to a Great Poet: English Poets / James McIntyre -- Mattie J. Peterson (1866-1947) or (1866-1906). I Kissed Pa Twice after His Death. The Old Homestead -- James Henry Powell (fl. 1850). Lines Written for a Friend on the Death of His Brother, Caused by a Railway Train Running over Him Whilst He Was in a State of Inebriation -- James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916). The Smitten Purist: And the Charming Miss Smith's Effect upon Him. The Happy Little Cripple. A Dubious "Old Kriss" -- Amanda McKittrick Ros (1860-1939). On Visiting Westminster Abbey. A Little Belgian Orphan. Thoughts. The End of "Pain" The Old Home. On a Girl Who Took Action for Breach of Promise. I Love to See a Lady Nice and Natural at Any Price -- When Bad Poems Happen to Good Poets: The Thorn / William Wordsworth -- Francis Saltus Saltus (1849-1889). Mothers. Posthumous Revenge. The Kiss. The Masters. Two Loves Found Refuge: A Mood of Madness -- George Robert Sims (1847-?). Beauty and the Beast -- Slocum Slugs, Esq. (fl. 1857). I Saw Her in Cabbage Time: A Dutch Melody -- William B. Tappan (1794-1849). Obey Your Parents. Song of the Three Hundred Thousand Drunkards in the United States. The Last Drunkard -- Rev. Samuel Wesley, Sr. (1660-1735). On Two Souldiers Killing One Another for a Groat. A Pindaricque on the Grunting of a Hog -- Cornelius Whur (1782-1853). The Armless Artist. The Unfortunate Gentleman -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919). Drops of Water. Come Back Clean -- George Wither (1588-1667). A Love Sonnet -- Poems by Unknown Authors. Ode to a Ditch. My Last Tooth. [Untitled]. Battles of Joshua. [Untitled]. Independence Day -- The Worst Poem Ever Written in the English Language: A Tragedy / Theophile Marzials.

ISBN

0679776222 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96051788^

OCLC

36024108

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library