The Oxford Book of Comic Verse Hardcover – 1 Sept. 1994

Absolutely marvellous compliation of comic verse some well known, but it's a big book for your money.It was so popular I had to buy three more copies for friends and family so I could keep one for myself.There are several very good secondhand books on offer.

There was an old woman from BourtieWhose friend was just four years past forty.So she gave him this giftHis spirits to liftwith the poems both funny and naughty.

Not the Book that I was seeking - but very glad to have it. Well done!

I thought this a useful book but thought it a bit on the side of the academic "poets". I'm not suggesting that Pam Ayres is a great poet but she and similar writers are really funny. Including some lyrics from Victorian Music Hall e.g Pretty Polly Perkins was very welcome - If more publicity was given to the fact that song lyrics are poems and very good poems I think many more people would read and listen to poetry. For the low price it is good value for money.

best penny ever spent!

Very good

Very pleased.

Dip into the The Oxford Book of Comic Verse at any time - when you're feeling merry or when you're feeling blue. My absolute favorite in the whole volume (I AM a writer, remember!) goes "The book of my enemy has been remaindered.....And I am glad!"It's deliciously wicked! There are tons of other marvelous poems (it's a big book) dating back hundreds of years and dating forward to the present.I was introduced to this book by my brother when I was in England recently, promoting a book of my own (Goodnight Children, Everywhere, The History Press Ltd.) He read some of the poems to me and I was so enchanted that I ordered the book as soon as I got home.Monica B. Morris

This is the finest anthology of British and American humorous verse that I know of. A bedside book par excellence, so full of funny gems that it's impossible to list them here. There is every form of humor, from satire and parody to just plain silly, from every period, famous authors and totally obscure ones. It'll make you laugh.

This might be a book that appeals to the English reader,perhaps not so much to an American. The selections are, so to speak, tooprim and proper, too clean and literary. Some exceptions of course but not too many. No Little Willy rhymes, no Burma Shave ditties, no "Maid from Nantucket" type verses. Very few double dactyls and the included limericks are really not very amusing. Nothing vaguely resembling:When grandmama fell off the boat.And couldn't swim and wouldn't float,Matilda just stood by and smiled.I very nearly slapped the child.A great poem, wouldn't you agree?What I did learn from buying this book on line is not tobuy a book on line. Moral: When interested in buying a book, go to yournearest bookstore and sample the contents. Don't buy sight unseen.

As a writer of comic poems and books myself, I LOVE this book!

read it. love it.