The Oxford Book of American Light VerseWilliam Harmon Oxford University Press, 1979 - 540 pages A collection of humorous poetry written by Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, Melville, Dickinson, Harte, Field, Frost, Sandburg, Lindsay, Aiken, MacLeish, Nash, and other well-known and lesser-known Americans. |
Contents
ANONYMOUS | 3 |
The Hasty Pudding from Canto I Canto III | 18 |
FITZGREENE HALLECK 17901867 | 29 |
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