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Poems of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce (1995, Hardcover)

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By Ambrose Bierce. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press. The book shows average wear.

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Ambrose Bierce is one of the most colorful figures in American literary history. A writer whose Devil's Dictionary remains the delight of misanthropes and fans of satire throughout the English-speaking world, he was also a master of the short story form. From the late 1860s through the early 1900s, he worked as a journalist, gaining wide renown in the 1890s and 1900s as a satirical columnist for William Randolph Hearst's chain of newspapers. In 1913 Bierce traveled to Mexico and joined Pancho Villa's army as an observer. He disappeared late that year and his fate has been a matter of dispute ever since. The poems that Bierce wrote throughout his career are less well known than his stories, journalistic pieces, and aphoristic observations on human folly. Nevertheless, his work as a poet, as critic Donald Sidney-Fryer has argued, "clearly merits the attention of the discriminating lover and student of poetry." Varied in form and subject matter, most of his poems are (not surprisingly) satires. This volume contains a generous selection of Bierce's poems; they are alternately ironic, melancholy, bitter, and wickedly amusing. There are also fifteen essays and letters on poetry, poets, and such topics as "Wit and Humor" and "The Passing of Satire." Certainly there have been few authors more intimately familiar with wit and satire than the brilliant, iconoclastic Bierce. As editor M. E. Grenander makes plain in her introduction, both are abundantly present in this collection of "some of the most remarkable verse in American literary history."

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
ISBN-10
0803212461
ISBN-13
9780803212466
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1439682

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Author
Ambrose Bierce
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General

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8.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz

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Book Title
Poems of Ambrose Bierce
Lc Classification Number
Ps1097.A6 1995
Copyright Date
1995
Format
Hardcover
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
94-013761
Dewey Decimal
811/.4
Publication Year
1995
Dewey Edition
20
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
202 Pages

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