Whether you love poetry or just don't get it, you will love these often hilarious poetic parodies. Martin Gardner has assembled his favourites, many by famous authors in their own right (Robert Sherwood, G.K. Chesterton, A.E. Housman, Bret Harte). Gardner does us the favour of putting the original poems first, followed by their parodies, thus providing a sampling of some of the best-known poems in English while demonstrating how easily the profound can be made to look ridiculous.
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"...a delight" -- Baltimore Sun, October 7, 2001
"...entertaining...there is good, clean fun on these pages..." -- The Columbus Dispatch
"...very amusing..." -- Toronto Globe & Mail, January 5, 2002
"...entertaining...there is good, clean fun on these pages..." -- The Columbus Dispatch
"...very amusing..." -- Toronto Globe & Mail, January 5, 2002
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Martin Gardner is the creator of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN'S "Mathematical Games" column, a contributing editor to the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, and the author of more than seventy books, including FROM THE WANDERING JEW TO WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY JR. and SCIENCE: GOOD, BAD AND BOGUS, as well as the novel THE FLIGHT OF PETER FROMM. He also wrote the introduction and notes to THE ANNOTATED ALICE: THE DEFINITIVE EDITION and PHANTASMAGORIA by Lewis Carroll.
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My mind lets go a thousand things, Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ben Bolt, Annabel Lee, Maud Muller, Gunga Din, Joe Jones, Samuel Brown, Cannibal Flea, Something Else Again, Ben Butler, Dangerous Dan, Quoth the Raven, Judge Nomination, Old Kaspar New!
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My mind lets go a thousand things, Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ben Bolt, Annabel Lee, Maud Muller, Gunga Din, Joe Jones, Samuel Brown, Cannibal Flea, Something Else Again, Ben Butler, Dangerous Dan, Quoth the Raven, Judge Nomination, Old Kaspar New!
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- Pitiless Parodies (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Frank Jacobs on 4 pages
- Ancient Mariner Pb (Phoenix 60p paperbacks) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on page 27, page 28, and page 30
- The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore in Front Matter, and page 237
- The Night Before Christmas: A Classic Illustrated Edition by Clement C. Moore in Front Matter, and page 237
- The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore in Front Matter, and page 237
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