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Dwight MacDonald must have thoroughly enjoyable time his nearly 600 pages of ; they do indeed stretch Chaucer to Beerbohm--and Anyone who has read a number of medieval will no doubt find Chaucer's of Sir Thopas delightful, but I that MacDonald's interest purely historical. Beerbohm other figure of the title--is matter: he is unquestion the greatest of the parodists. (for instance), a take Henry James' later work, is raordinarily engaging piece of ; it begins...
Parodies-An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm and After, edited by Dwight Macdonald. With wit and a leaven of malice, the editor has compiled and annotated the best collection yet of that curious art in which the pen is wielded while the thumb is fixed firmly to the nose...
...Australian (and son of U.S. Roman Catholic Publisher Frank Sheed), has written a quiet, sound little story, but probably one destined to make a punctuation mark in the long catalogue of those who attended Oxford and survived to write about it. The book denotes a haunting change since Max Beerbohm's glittering undergraduate duke, orator, wit, scholar and élégant set Zuleika Dobson and the Isis on fire, or even since Waugh's Lord Sebastian Flyte lugged his Teddy-bear to the barber...
Parodies, an Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm and After, edited by Dwight Macdonald. With wit and a leaven of malice, the editor has compiled and annotated the best collection yet of that curious art in which the pen is wielded while the thumb is fixed firmly to the nose...
...Henry James (Max Beerbohm...