Humor in modern American poetry - New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 - 226 p.

1. Introduction: theories of humor and modern poetry
2. Humor and authority in Ezra Pound’s Cantos
3. Cummings’s erotic humor
4. Emotional comedies
5. Laughing in the gallery
6. Poetry and good humor
7. Convention and mysticism



9781501352607 (pbk)


American poetry--Humor in literature--United States

811.5091 / H8838