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The New Oxford book of English light verse / chosen by Kingsley Amis.
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New York : Oxford University Press, 1978.
1978
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| FormatText | Call number*R-RMRR PR1175 .N37 1978 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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Der Kuckuck führt ein Lotterleben : Purzelreime / von Ogden Nash ; ins Deutsche übertr. v. K. F. Ross u. Max Knight ; illustr. v. Walther Götlinger.
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Wien ; Hamburg : Zsolnay, 1977.
1977
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The Oxford book of light verse / chosen by W.H. Auden.
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Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; [New York : Oxford University Press], 1938.
1938
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The Comic muse : an anthology of humorous verse / compiled by J.C. Squire.
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London : W. Collins Sons, c1925.
1925
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The first clerihews / E. Clerihew Bentley, with G.K. Chesterton ... [et al.] ; illustrated by G.K. Chesterton.
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.
1982
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English humour for beginners / George Mikes ; illustrated by Walter Goetz.
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London : Deutsch, 1980.
1980
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The complete clerihews of E. Clerihew Bentley / illustrated by Nicolas Bentley, G.K. Chesterton, Victor Reinganum, and the author ; with an introduction by Gavin Ewart.
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1981.
1981
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Snooke [microform] / by Michael Baldwin.
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London : Phoenix-Springwood, c1980.
1980
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Other people's clerihews / chosen by Gavin Ewart ; with illustrations by Nicola Jennings.
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.
1983
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The Norton book of light verse / edited by Russell Baker.
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New York : Norton, c1986.
1986
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| FormatText | Call number*R-RMRR PR1195.H8 .N67 1986 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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Poets' wit and humour / selected by W.H. Wills ; illustrated with one hundred engravings from drawings by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas.
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London : Bell and Daldy, 1861
1861
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| FormatText | Call numberArents SA 1207b (Bennett) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
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Musarum deliciae ; and, Wit restor'd / facsimile reproductions with an introduction by Tim Raylor.
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Delmar, N.Y. : Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1985.
1985-1655
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Ten fifteenth-century comic poems / edited by Melissa M. Furrow.
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New York : Garland Pub., 1985.
1985
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The New Oxford book of light verse / chosen by Kingsley Amis.
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1987, c1978.
1987-1978
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The Everyman book of light verse / edited by Robert Robinson.
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London : Dent, 1984.
1984
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The First Charnel House anthology of bad poetry / edited by Crad Kilodney.
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Toronto : Charnel House, c1989.
1989
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Worse verse : from the Look! pages of the Sunday Times / edited by Allan Hall ; drawings by Mel Calman.
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[London] : Times Newspapers, [1972]
1972
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Poetry of the anti-Jacobin / George Canning and John Hookham Frere.
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Oxford [England] ; New York : Woodstock Books, 1991.
1991-1799
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Whims and oddities, in prose and verse : with forty original designs / by Thomas Hood.
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London : Lupton Relfe, 1828.
1828
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Cavaliers, clubs, and literary culture : Sir John Mennes, James Smith, and the Order of the Fancy / Timothy Raylor.
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Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, c1994.
1994
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The Oxford book of comic verse / edited by John Gross.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.
1994
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The wit of seventeenth-century poetry / edited by Claude J. Summers & Ted-Larry Pebworth.
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Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1995.
1995
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The Hasty wedding, or, The Saint Giles's fortune : an heroi-comical poem : in six canto's.
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London : Printed for T. Warner, at the Black-Boy in Pater-Noster-Row, 1720.
1720
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| FormatText | Call numberArents 95-277 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
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One of your legs is both the same / poems by Adrian Henri ... [et al.] ; compiled by Eunice McMullen ; illustrated by Colin McNaughton.
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London : Macmillan Children's Books, 1995.
1995-1994
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Thistles and docks : the humorous poetry of Bob Boland / introduction by Brendan Kennelly.
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Dublin : Mercier Press, [1990?]
1995
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Humor in Irish literature : a reference guide / Don L.F. Nilsen.
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Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1996.
1996
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| FormatText | Call numberJFE 96-18917 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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A Little book of light verse / with an introduction and notes by Anthony C. Deane ; with a portrait of C.S. Calverley.
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London : Methuen, 1902.
1902
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| FormatText | Call numberB-10 1262 | Item locationOffsite |
An anthology of humorous verse; edited by Theodore A. Cook.
Text
London, H. Virtue & comp, limited, 1902.
1902
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More comic and curious verse / collected by J. M. Cohen.
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Harmondsworth, Middlesex, [Eng.] : Penguin Books, 1956.
1956
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Walking the bridge of your nose / selected by Michael Rosen ; illustrated by Chloë Cheese.
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New York : Kingfisher, 1995.
1995
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| FormatText | Call numberJFF 97-1939 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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The diverting history of John Gilpin : shewing how he went further than he intended, and came safe home again / embellish'd with woodcuts drawn and engraved by Robert Seaver.
Text
Boston ; & New York : Houghton Mifflin & Company ; Cambridge : The Riverside Press, 1906.
1906
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| FormatText | Call numberNCL (Cowper, W. Diverting history of John Gilpin. 1906 (Houghton Mifflin)) | Item locationOffsite |
Tales in verse : critical, satirical, and humorous: / by Thomas Holcroft.
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London : Published, for the author, by H.D. Symonds, 1806.
1806
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Paddy Hew : a poem : from the brain of Timothy Tarpaulin / whistled by a sea lark.
Text
London : Printed for Whittingham and Arliss, 1815.
1815
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The fancy : a selection from the poetical remains of the late Peter Corcoran, of Gray's Inn, student at law : with a brief memoir of his life.
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London : Printed for Taylor and Hessey ..., 1820.
1820
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| FormatText | Call numberPforz (Reynolds, J./Fancy) 1820 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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Humor in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature : a reference guide / Don L. F. Nilsen.
Text
Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 1998.
1998
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The diverting history of John Gilpin : showing how he went farther than he intended, and came safe home again / written by Wm. Cowper ; with drawings by R. Caldecott.
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[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1878]
1878
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| FormatText | Call numberArents BIP (Caldecott, R. Picture 1878) 99-25 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
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An elegy on the death of a mad dog / written by Dr. Goldsmith ; pictured by R. Caldecott ; sung by Master Bill Primrose.
Text
[London] : George Routledge and Sons, [1879]
1879
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An elegy on the glory of her sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize / by Oliver Goldsmith.
Text
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1885]
1885
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| FormatText | Call numberSpencer Coll. Eng. 1882 (Caldecott's) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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An elegy on the glory of her sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize / by Oliver Goldsmith.
Text
[London] : G. Routledge & Sons, [1885]
1885
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Clerihews by various hands, edited by John Waynflete, B.A. [pseud.]
Text
Cambridge [Eng.] The Rampant Lions Press [1946]
1946
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| FormatText | Call number*KP (Rampant) (Carter, J. Clerihews by various hands) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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An Eighteenth century miscellany.
Text
Chelsea Printed at the Swan Press, 1930.
1930
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| FormatText | Call number*KP (Swan, Chelsea) (Eighteenth century miscellany) | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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Parodies of the romantic age.
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London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 1999.
1999
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 00-1561 v. 5 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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The funny side : 101 humorous poems / edited by Wendy Cope.
Text
London : Faber and Faber, 1998.
1998
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 00-258 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Humor in twentieth-century British literature : a reference guide / Don L.F. Nilsen.
Text
Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 2000.
2000
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| FormatText | Call numberJFE 00-6416 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Byron's poetic experimentation : Childe Harold, the tales, and the quest for comedy / Alan Rawes.
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Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, c2000.
2000
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| FormatText | Call numberJFE 00-13590 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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The expanded utter nonsense / the poems of Peter Mortimer ; illustrated by Geoff Laws.
Text
Cullercoats : IRON, 2001.
2001
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| FormatText | Call numberJFD 02-6763 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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Corruption, a satire : with notes / by Thomas Clio Rickman, author of The fallen cottage, Poems in two volumes, Letter to Mr. Pitt, etc.
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London : Printed by and for the author ..., 1806.
1806
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| FormatText | Call numberPforz (Rickman, T. Corruption) 1806 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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William Blake's comic vision / Nick Rawlinson.
Text
Houndmills [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
2003
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Mirth for midsummer, merriment for Michaelmas, cheerfulness for Christmas, laughter for lady-day : forming a collection of parlour poetry and drawing-room drollery suitable for all seasons, and supplying smiles for summer, amusement for autumn, wit for winter, sprightliness for spring.
Text
London : Printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1823.
1823
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| FormatText | Call numberPforz (Sharpe, R./Mirth) 1823 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
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Letters in rhyme / to and from E. Gerard, portrait painter, Liverpool ; with a number of humourous embellishments, drawn on stone by the author.
Text
Liverpool : Printed by Rushton and Melling ... Sold by E. Smith and Co. ...; at the Gazette office, Manchester ...; Burks and Kinnebrook, Norwich; Hillyard and Morgan, Bristol; and all booksellers, 1825.
1825
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