Sagittulae, Random Verses
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A Cambridge debate over women's higher education becomes a comic battle in Edward Woodley Bowling's collection of verse. University senators take on grand classical names, and arguments over academic privilege are staged like an ancient contest. Bowling explains that most of these pieces were written over twenty-five years for The Eagle, the magazine of St. John's College, while a few appeared in Punch. College marriage and success on the river supply further occasions for rhyme and parody.
The subjects widen from Cambridge affairs to mountain climbing and national politics. Mountaineering supplies material for comic exaggeration, while alphabet poems turn Beaconsfield and Gladstone into speakers listing their troubles and ambitions. These short pieces offer readers a view of college loyalties, public arguments and leisure pursuits through the jokes of a writer addressing friends who knew that world.
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- Author
- Edward Woodley Bowling
- Pages
- 122
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Satire
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