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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
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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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

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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. 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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