The Fireside Book of Humorous Poetry

by William Cole, John Updike, Lewis Carroll

A collection of four hundred fifty amusing poems by such writers as Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Ogden Nash

Genres: Poetry

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1959

About the author

William Rossa Cole (1919-2000) was best known as an editor and anthologist. He was editor or author (or co-editor or co-author) of about 75 books, 50 of them anthologies. Three of his books were honored by the ALA: I Went to the Animal Fair in 1958, Beastly Boys and Ghastly Girls in 1964, and The Birds and Beast Were There in 1965. He was an editor for Simon & Schuster and Viking, and a columnist for the Saturday Review. He died in summer 2000, at the age of 80.

Reviews

[Echo · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were a few gems in here, and I loved seeing poems from Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Don Marquis, Dorothy Parker, and some others. Most of the poems in the book fell pretty flat for me, and a lot of them haven't aged very well.