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A truly international collection of comic verse featuring classics from Chaucer to Wendy Cope but with a wide range of less well-known delights. 'Mr Gross has put enough plums in his pudding to cheer the most melancholy reader.' Ned Sherrin "Evening Standard".
Synopsis
A wide-ranging anthology of comic verse including epigrams, street ballads, clerihews, limericks, advertising jingles, as well as the classic writers of comic verse, from Chaucer to Ogden Nash and beyond.