Origins of English Nonsense

Name: Origins of English Nonsense
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ISBN: 9780002558273

ISBN-10: 0002558270

ISBN-13: 9780002558273

Edition: 1997

Authors: Noel Malcolm

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Noel Malcolm's remarkable book lays before us the extent of nonsense verse some 250 years earlier than Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll. It presents an anthology of the work by these poets in the 17th century and discusses the development of this genre.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 329
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.66" long
Language: English

Noel Malcolm is a British columnist, writer and editor who was born in 1956. He was educated at Cambridge University and was a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge from 1981 to 1988. Malcolm left teaching to become the Foreign Editor of the Spectator and a political columnist for London's Daily Telegraph. Malcolm has written Bosnia: A Short Story, which puts the Bosnia-Hercegovina conflict into historical context and Kosovo: A Short Story, which outlines its history from medieval Serb state into modern times.

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
The origins and development of English seventeenth-century nonsense poetry	p. 3
Fustian, bombast and satire: the stylistic preconditions of English seventeenth-century nonsense poetry	p. 30
A short history of nonsense poetry in medieval and Renaissance Europe	p. 52
The sources and resources of nonsense: literary conventions, parodic forms and related genres	p. 78
Poems
Cabalistical Verses	p. 127
In the Utopian tongue	p. 129
Punctures and Junctures of Coryate	p. 130
Cabalistical, or Horse verse	p. 137
Poem in the Utopian Tongue	p. 139
Epitaph in the Barmooda tongue	p. 140
Epitaph on Coryate	p. 141
Certaine Sonnets	p. 143
Barbarian verses	p. 149
Great Jacke-a-Lent	p. 150
Sir Gregory Nonsence His Newes from No Place	p. 152
Sir Leonard Lack-wit's speech to the Emperor of Utopia	p. 176
A Non Sequitur	p. 180
A mess of non-sense	p. 182
Aqua-Musae	p. 184
Mercurius Nonsensicus	p. 185
The Essence of Nonsence upon Sence	p. 186
Non-sense	p. 211
Nonsense fragment	p. 213
A sonnett to cover my Epistles taile peece	p. 215
I am asham'd of Thee, o Paracelsie	p. 216
Pure Nonsence	p. 217
Nonsense	p. 219
Thou that dwarft'st mountains into molehill sense	p. 221
Ad Johannuelem Leporem, Lepidissimum, Carmen Heroicum	p. 224
A Fancy	p. 231
Interrogativa Cantilena	p. 232
Prophecies	p. 234
Newes	p. 236
A Bull Droll	p. 238
Witley's Lies	p. 240
From the top of high Caucasus	p. 243
Cure for the Quartain Ague	p. 247
How to get a Child without help of a Man	p. 251
A Bill of Fare	p. 253
A Bill of Fare	p. 259
An Excellent New Medley (i)	p. 261
An Excellent New Medley	p. 267
A New Merry Medley	p. 275
A New made Medly	p. 278
Monosyllables	p. 281
Mnemonic verses	p. 283
Notes, Bibliography, Indices	p. 287
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