A Nonsense Anthology
by Carolyn Wells
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He must be a fool indeed who cannot at times play the fool; and he who does not enjoy nonsense must be lacking in sense.-William J. Rolfe. Excerpt: "On a topographical map of Literature Nonsense would be represented by a small and sparsely settled country, neglected by the average tourist, but affording keen delight to the few enlightened travellers who sojourn within its borders. It is a field which has been neglected by anthologists and essayists; one of its few serious recognitions being show more in a certain "Treatise of Figurative Language," which says: "Nonsense; shall we dignify that with a place on our list? Assuredly will vote for doing so every one who hath at all duly noticed what admirable and wise uses it can be, and often is, put to, though never before in rhetoric has it been so highly honored. How deeply does clever or quaint nonsense abide in the memory, and for how many a decade-from earliest youth to age's most venerable years."" show lessTags
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A mixed bag, much of it fairly forgettable but includingsome good bits by W. S. Gilbert, Lewis Carroll, Charles Caryl ("My Recollectest Thoughts" which I learned by heart as a child)
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Poets play with language
35 works; 3 members
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202+ Works 2,154 Members
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- Original publication date
- 1902
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- 85
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- English
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
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- 7
