Thirty years after the vogue for old French verse forms, Lang gathered his two early books into one volume with a new introduction. The ballades take up Theocritus in winter, Cleopatra’s Needle, roulette, sleep and the midnight forest, while the rhymes add lyrics, parodies and tales in verse, all light-handed, learned and musical.
The whole of Lang’s best light verse in one place, including the Rhymes à la Mode already in the library alongside the ballades. Download the free EPUB.