A treasury of satire
By: by Edgar Johnson, including the world's greatest satirists, comic and tragic, from antiquity to the present time, selected and edited, with critical and historical backgrounds, and an introduction on the nature and value of satire
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 770
Subjects: Antologia (literatura); Satire
Table of contents: title: What satire is; title: How satire works; title: Why satire is important; title: The fox and the grapes; title: The ox and the frog; title: The wolf and the lamb; title: The town mouse and the country mouse; title: The frogs; title: Four satiric epigrams; title: Book I, Ode 5: He thanks heaven that he has gotten past the nonsense of love; title: Book I, Ode 25: Not altogether kindly, He reminds Lydia that young men are passing her by; title: Book II, Ode 4: He teases Xanthias about his new girl friend; title: Book II, Ode 11: He suggests having some fun while we're still able; title: Book III, Ode 9: Horace and Lydia decide the old love's better than the new; title: Book III, Ode 15: He tells a matron to be her age; title: Book III, Ode 30: He advances his modest boast to fame; title: Book IV, Ode 13: He taunts an aging siren on the loss of her charms; title: The art of love; title: The third satire; title: Dialogues of the gods; title: Dialogues of the dead; title: A tree for wives to hang upon; title: Holding the sheet before the husband; title: Reynard the fox; title: The nun's preist's tale; title: The book of Francois Rabelais; title: Don Quixote; title: Sonnet 130; title: Henry IV; title: Hamlet; title: King Lear; title: Poems; title: Volpone; title: The imaginary invalid; title: The miser; title: Hudibras.; title: The fox hoaxes the raven out of his cheese; title: Each satisfied with himself, the animals criticize each other to Jupiter; title: The wise cock fools the fox; title: Dissatisfied with a log for king, the frogs get a crane; title: The country wife; title: Absalom and Achtiophel; title: Mac Flecknoe; title: The way of the world; title: Ned Softly, the Poet; title: The rape of the lock; title: The characters of women; title: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot; title: Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Lemuel Gulliver; title: The beggar's opera; title: London; title: Jonathon Wild; title: Candide; title: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent; title: The Rivals; title: Holy Willie's prayer; title: Hermsprong; title: Pride and prejudice; title: Headlong hall; title: The vision of judgment; title: Martin Chuzzlewit; title: Vanity Fair; title: The Art of controversy; title: Alice in wonderland; title: Erewhon; title: The Egoist; title: Patience; title: Huckleberry Finn; title: the importance of being earnest; title: The theory of the leisure class; title: The first men in the moon; title: Intellectual irritant and philosopher-poet; title: Penguin Island; title: Manalive; title: Euphemia Clashthought; title: The Schartz-Metterklume method; title: South wind; title: Babbitt; title: Antic Hay; title: Round up; title: Thomas Hardy.; title: Edwin Arlington Robinson; title: Robert Frost; title: T.S. Eliot; title: E.E. Cummings; title: Kenneth Fearing; title: A.P. Herbert; title: Dorothy Parker; title: Ogden Nash; title: Misleading cases in the common law; title: Little Golden Calf; title: Let your mind alone; title: You can't go home again.