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American literature in parody;, a collection of parody, satire, and literary burlesque of American writers past and present., Illustrated by Burges Green

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American literature in parody;

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Illustrated by Burges Green

a collection of parody, satire, and literary burlesque of American writers past and present.

Pt. 1: Poor Richard in our time -- "Poem for Benjamin Franklin's birthday," / Stoddard King -- "The late Benjamin Franklin," / Mark Twain -- "The shrike and the chipmunks," / James Thurber -- "The patient toiler who got it in the usual place," George Ade -- "Wise saws and modern instances," Ambrose Bierce -- Pt. 2: Leatherstocking in Motley -- "Cooper's defects," / Mark Twain -- "Stilted dialogue," / Mark Twain -- "The broken twig series," / Mark Twain -- "The delicate art of the forest," / Mark Twain -- "Muck-a-muck, a modern Indian novel after Cooper," Bret Harte -- "The stars and stripes," / William Makepeace Thackeray -- "Mr. Copymore Fummer, author of the leather-leg novels refuses an invitation," / S. Kettell -- Pt. 3: The deflowering of New England -- "A garland of Ibids for Van Wyck Brooks," / Frank Sullivan -- "What Hiawatha probably did," / George A. Strong -- "The wooing of Milkanwatha," / Song of Milkanwatha -- "What I think of Hiawatha," / J.W. Morris -- "The metre Columbian," / Anon -- "A psalm of life," / Phoebe Cary -- "The day is done," / Phoebe Cary -- "The case of the village blacksmith," D. B. Wyndham Lewis -- "A literary bombshell," / Mark Twain -- "Mrs. Judge Jenkins," / Bret Harte -- Pt. 4: Transcendental mystics and bluestocking reformers -- "The tone transcendental," / Edgar Allen Poe -- "The retort transcendental," E. B. White -- "The Reverend Moonshine Milkywater," / S. Kettell -- "Moral mutiny in New England," James Russell Lowell -- The mysterious, ambiguous Mr. Melville," / Anon -- "Portrait of a bluestocking," / Henry James -- Mrs. Opal Emerson Mudge and 'the higher illumination,' " / Sinclair Lewis -- "Discord at Concord," / J. K. Bangs -- Pt. 5: The decline and fall of the House of Usher -- "The vulgarity of Poe," / Aldous Huxley -- "A mellow cup of tea, golden tea," / Barry Pain -- "Pills," / Damer Cape -- "Isadore," / Thomas Holly Chivers -- "Humpty-Dumpty, a la Poe," / Thomas Holly Chivers -- "Ravins of piute poet Poe," / C. L. Edison -- "The willows," / Bret Harte -- "A poe-'em of passion," / C. F. Lummis -- "Ulabel Lume," / Barbara Angell -- "A tale of horror by E.A.P.," / Grace Greenwood -- Pt. 6: Grains of sand in leaves of grass -- "Home sweet home with variations," / H. C. Bunner -- "After Walt, Whitman," / Richard Grant White -- "A Whitman waif," / Anon -- "A classic waits for me," / E. B. White -- Pt. 7: A few new turns of the screw -- "In darkest James," / Frank Moore Colby -- "A magnificent but painful hippopotamus," / H. G. Wells -- "The third manner," / William James -- "A limerick by Henry James," / Carolyn Wells -- "The return of the screw," / J. K. Bangs -- "The mote in the middle distance," / Max Beerbohm -- Pt. 8: Tears and laughter: the reading public -- "The circulating library: 1850," / Henry David Thoreau -- "Heavy dr---ayma: 1890," / Stephen Crane -- "How love came to General Grant," / Donald Ogden Stewart -- "The Norris plan," / Corey Ford -- "Hot stuff in the nineties," / Stoddard King -- "A hero of tomato can by B---t H---te," / Frank Norris -- Pt. 9: Vox pop in the forum -- "Independence-day oration," / John Phoenix -- "The senator comes home," / Mark Twain -- "The treasurer's report," / Robert Benchley -- "Salesman of salvation," / Sinclair Lewis -- Pt. 10: Some cults and o-cults in verse -- "If Gray had had to write his elegy in the cemetery of Spoon River instead of in that of Stoke Poges," / J. C. Squire -- "The parodist's impression of the impressionists," / J. C. Squire -- "The futility of thinking," / Witter Bynner and Arthur D. Ficke -- "Liquor, laughter, and limbs," / Witter Bynner and Arthur D. Ficke -- "The grackle and the pear tree," / Margaret Widdemer -- "Carl Sandburg hates the stuff," / Samuel Hoffenstein -- "Homage to Ezra Pound," / Gilbert Highet -- "Einstein among the coffee cups," / Louis Untermeyer -- "The love song of F. Scott Fitzgerald," / John Abbot Clark -- "The moist land," / Samuel Hoffenstein -- "Edgar A. Guest," / Louis Untermeyer -- Pt. 11: The lost (and found) generation -- "The green stone of unrest by S---n Cr---e," / Frank Norris -- "Life is a bowl of Eugene O'Neills," / Frank Sullivan -- "Shad Ampersand, a novel of time and the writer," / Wolcott Gibbs -- "The education of Henry Apley," / Wolcott Gibbs -- "For whom the gong sounds," / Cornelia Otis Skinner -- "Of nothing and the Wolfe," / Clifton Fadiman -- "Requiem for a noun, or intruder in the dusk," - Peter DeVries