Product Description: Comic poetry is serious stuff, combining incongruity, satire and psychological effects to provide us a brief victory over reason--which could help us save ourselves, if not the world. This book champions the literary movement of comic poetry in the U...read more

Looks at the life, career, and writings of the American poet.

Looks at the life, career, and writings of the American poet.

Surveys the works of Hugh Lofting, Walter Brooks, Robert Lawson, Sid Fleischman, and Beverly Cleary

Product Description: In this boldly revisionary work, three noted Dickinson scholars take issue with the traditional tragic image of the poet. Focusing on the comic elements in Dickinson's art from a feminist point of view, they show how Dickinson uses the comedic resources of language to contest all types of orthodoxy and to offer the possibility of transforming society...read more