Hearings
Hearings

Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee ...

Publisher:

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 2316

ISBN-13:

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Humorous Wit
Humorous Wit

Author: Djamel Ouis

Publisher: Paragon Publishing

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 872

ISBN-13: 178222582X

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Humorous Wit is a new compilation of quotations in their most humoristic form. There are over 15,000 of these taken from various parts of the world, with over 1,200 of them translated into English for the first time. This book features 5,000 authors from every corner of the globe, covering a period starting before classical antiquity, when man first started to record his thoughts, to modern times, enriching the cultural heritage. This does not in any way mean that the caveman was less humorous, but the richness of the environment we live in today and the variety of subject matter contribute considerably to a refined sense of humour. Moreover, considering that chimps and other primates also possess the ability to laugh, humour may have been around longer than the human race : )

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 9

Author: T. S. Eliot

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Published: 2021-08-31

Total Pages: 1040

ISBN-13: 0571362826

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This volume covers the production of Eliot's play The Family Reunion; the publication of The Idea of a Christian Society; and the joyous versifying of Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. After exhausting himself through nights of fire-watching in the London wartime blackout, he travels the country, attends meetings of The Moot, delivers talks, and advises a fresh generation of writers including Cyril Connolly, Keith Douglas, Kathleen Raine and Vernon Watkins. Major correspondents include W. H. Auden, George Barker, William Empson, Geoffrey Faber, John Hayward, James Laughlin, Hope Mirrlees, Mervyn Peake, Ezra Pound, Michael Roberts, Stephen Spender, Tambimuttu, Allen Tate, Michael Tippett, Charles Williams and Virginia Woolf. Four Quartets, Eliot's culminating masterpiece, is discussed in detail.