Henry Morley gathers centuries of English comic verse. Chaucer’s Manciple’s, Friar’s and Reeve’s Tales and Sir Thopas appear in nineteenth-century modernisations, followed by the medieval London Lickpenny and Bicorn and Chichevache, Drayton’s fairy mock-epic Nymphidia, Pope’s Rape of the Lock and Cowper’s Diverting History of John Gilpin.
A cheerful anthology for readers who want the lighter side of English poetry in one volume. Download the free EPUB.