Name: Fly Leaves: Victorian Comic Verse, Classical Parody, and Cambridge Wit in Polished Light Poetry
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ISBN: 9788028342555

portada Fly Leaves: Victorian Comic Verse, Classical Parody, and Cambridge Wit in Polished Light Poetry

Fly Leaves: Victorian Comic Verse, Classical Parody, and Cambridge Wit in Polished Light Poetry

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Physical Book

Publisher

Sharp Ink

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

0.5 x 15.2 x 22.9 cm

ISBN13

9788028342555

Fly Leaves: Victorian Comic Verse, Classical Parody, and Cambridge Wit in Polished Light Poetry

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Synopsis "Fly Leaves: Victorian Comic Verse, Classical Parody, and Cambridge Wit in Polished Light Poetry"

Fly Leaves is a sparkling collection of light verse, parody, translation, and occasional poetry, displaying Charles Stuart Calverley's rare command of classical form and comic timing. Its poems move nimbly between urbane satire, mock-heroic flourish, and lyrical delicacy, often turning learned allusion into effortless entertainment. In the Victorian context of public-school and university wit, the volume stands as a model of polished vers de socit, at once playful and technically exacting. Calverley, educated at Harrow, Oxford, and Cambridge, was renowned in his own lifetime as a brilliant classicist, conversationalist, and craftsman of parody. His deep immersion in Greek and Latin literature, combined with the competitive wit of collegiate culture, shaped the precision and elegance of Fly Leaves. Though trained for the law, his literary reputation rests chiefly on the poems in which scholarship becomes pleasure and parody becomes criticism. This book is recommended to readers who value poetry that is intellectually agile without being solemn. Admirers of Victorian literature, comic verse, and literary parody will find in Fly Leaves a work of enduring freshness: refined, mischievous, and deceptively learned.

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