Cobwebs from a Library Corner
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A Pessimistic View
1:28 -
The Master’s Pen - A Confession
1:24 -
Bookworm Ballads (a Literary Feast)
2:01 -
Ideas for Sale
2:26 -
The Author’s Boomerang
0:43 -
To an Egotistical Biographer
0:34 -
No Copyright Needed
0:47 -
Ingredients of Greatness
0:48 -
A Common Favorite
1:32 -
Their Pens
0:29 -
An Unsolved Problem
0:28 -
The Bibliophile’s Threat
0:27 -
My Treasures
0:33 -
A Poet’s Fad
0:25 -
The Poet Undone
0:29 -
A Waning Muse
0:31 -
Modesty
0:28 -
My Lord the Book
0:34 -
The Bibliomiser
0:39 -
The ''Collector''
0:47 -
A Reader
0:59 -
Fate!
0:57 -
A Pleasing Thought
0:47 -
Books vs. ''Books,'' by a Bibliomaniac
1:20 -
A Confession
1:32 -
The Edition de Looks
1:54 -
Napolini’s Error
2:41 -
My Color
1:54 -
Contentment in Nature
1:45 -
The Heroic Gunner
1:56 -
The Pathetic Tale of the Caddy Boy
3:14 -
Garrulous Wisdom
1:19 -
The Perjury of a Rejected Lover
0:59 -
Maid of Culture
1:04 -
Not Perfect
1:01 -
A City Dweller’s Wish
1:01 -
Where are They?
1:25 -
Memories
0:36 -
A Sad State
0:30 -
Ad Astra per Otium.
0:46 -
Consolation
0:51 -
Satisfaction on Reading ''Not One Dissatisfied,'' by Walt Whitman
1:55 -
To a Withered Rose
0:53 -
The Worst of Enemies
0:40 -
Jokes of the Night
1:37 -
An Autumnal Romance
0:31 -
The Country in July
1:09 -
May 30, 1893
0:50 -
The Curse of Wealth
2:30 -
The Rhyme of the Ancient Populist
2:28 -
One of the Nameless Great
0:45 -
In February Days
1:05 -
A Change of Ambition
1:28 -
Message from Mahatmas
3:15 -
The Gold-seekers
2:13 -
Ode to a Politician
2:32 -
Some are Amateurs
0:41
Cobwebs from a Library Corner (1899) is a public domain work.
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Writers, collectors and readers supply the jokes in John Kendrick Bangs's 1899 collection of comic verse. The opening poems imagine a novel assembled with scissors and glue, a famous author's pen that refuses to serve its new owner, and a bookworm's dinner with literary works on the menu. Bangs repeatedly turns literary ambition back on the speaker, especially when an author who distrusts popular taste discovers that his own book sells well.
The collection moves from its bookish section to broader observations on everyday habits and vanity. In the middle excerpt, parents become so absorbed in golf that their children must search for them on the course, while a learned neighbor knows almost everything except when to stop talking. Short rhymed pieces and sudden reversals make this a useful choice for readers interested in literary humor and the social irritations of the late nineteenth century.
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- John Kendrick Bangs
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