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Author:Arnold Silcock
Title:Verse And Worse
Subtitle:A Private Collection By Arnold Silcock With Drawings By V. H. Drummond
Publisher:  Faber And Faber
Country:UK
Date:1958
Format:Paperback
Class Number:821.052
Genre:Poetry, Humour
ISBN-10:0571051324
First Published:  1952
Rating:10.0  Rate
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Notes

faber paper covered edition 1958, reprinted 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1967, 1969, 1971; re-set 1974

variously by, collected by, and edited by, arnold silcock:
sections (not exactly chapters, though some ecclesiastical associations exist): good old guzzling and drinking days; accent on accent; potted biography; philosophical and metaphysical, psychological and sometimes quizzical; playtime on parnassus; parodies and spites; grave shades from the churchyard gaze on gay graves that the churchyard shades; rhyming proverbs; come live with me and be my love; cats and dogs; the frolicsome kick of the limerick; gay yet wistful; the lunatic fringe; whimsies; old school books, samplers, sundials, bells, with wise-saw jingles weave their spells; queer people; backward-forward with acknowledgements; indexes by authors, titles, first lines.

288pp incl. titles, backward-forwords & indices.

hard bound edition (1952) faber and faber ltd. isbn 0571043844

Comments and Reviews
 
ppint.
11th Jan 2016
 Rated 10/10
contains many decades-long favourites, if few truly great poems (tm°), not least gertrude strong's "when he killed the mudjokivis" ("the modern hiawatha: from 'the song of milkanwatha'"); james clerk maxwell's "rigid body sings" ("gin a body meet a body/flyin' through the air..."); "how i brought the good news from aix to ghent (or vice versa)" by w. c. sellar & r. j. yeatman; percy bysshe shelley's "on a painted woman" and george outram's heart-rending epic tale in fifteen verses of "the annuity"; and small but perfect gems, such as john wilmot, the earl of rochester's original (and more insulting) epigram on charles II, which deserves quoting in its full glory:

"here lies our mutton-eating king
whose word no man relies on,
who never said a foolish thing,
nor ever did a wise one."°°;

(°° - charles got his reply in, though:

"my sayings are my own; my actions are my ministers'.")

° - vide, "the week-end book"

- and many, many more, including some to delight the truly young, as well as the young at heart; no home should be without a copy; nor public, nor school, library, neither.

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