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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun parodies... an amusing afternoon read,
By busybooklover "Mary" (Southern CALIF, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pitiless Parodies (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) (Paperback)
It opens up with a fun variation of "Old Father WIlliam"(from Alice in Wonderland) and later revisits it again with "You are Old Henry Aaron" which although I'm not a sports fan... was very funny! My favorites were the Mother Goose Meets the environment and Mother Goose around the world. There is a poem dediacted to Shwarzenegger which was obviously written before he was governor.. I'd like to see the last stanza on THAT revised edition! LOL. Categories/Chapters include:
Great Poems Updated, Celebrities and Such, Zoo's Who, The Sports Page, Baseball Types, A Rhyming Guide to Pro Football, Mother Goose Meets the Environment, Down the Chimney with Clement Clarke Moore, Refeathering "The Raven", Seasoned to Taste, The Immortal Casey, The Poetry Round-Robin Roundelay (Poems as might have been written by OTHER poets!) Mother Goose Around the World, Poets for Hire (ie... "Henry Wasdsworth Longfellow as a Used Car Dealer" & "Walt Whitman as a Mafia Don"),and finally, Keep the Motor Running. If your sense of humor leans towards the sarcastic and is slightly bookish... you may well enjoy this. I am not a sports fan, so I skipped over most of those sections. Some are a little dated (The Saga of At&T), but that didn't detract much from the timeless parodies. |
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Pitiless Parodies (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) by Frank Jacobs (Paperback - October 18, 1994)
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