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The Poetry of Ring Lardner

by Ring Lardner

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  1. Foreword

    1:40

  2. Good-by Bill

    2:19

  3. A Visit from Young Gloom

    2:07

  4. An Appreciative Audience

    1:36

  5. Discipline

    1:44

  6. Inexpensive Guests

    1:17

  7. His Sense of Humor

    1:52

  8. Speech Economy

    1:45

  9. Welcome to Spring

    1:45

  10. Taste

    1:35

  11. Riddles

    1:22

  12. Hesitation

    2:01

  13. His Wonderful Choo-choos

    2:10

  14. Cousinly Affection

    1:37

  15. My Baby's Garden

    2:01

  16. Decision Reversed

    1:28

  17. The Grocery Man and the Bear

    2:11

  18. Coming Home

    1:44

  19. His Imagination

    1:46

  20. His Memory

    1:39

  21. Confession

    1:30

  22. His Lady Friend

    1:22

  23. Declaration of Independence

    1:41

  24. The Eternal Greeting

    2:02

  25. Guess Again

    1:19

  26. Nearly a Sinecure

    1:32

  27. The Heckuses

    2:05

  28. His Favorite Role

    1:36

  29. The Paths of Rashness

    1:57

  30. The New Plaything

    1:23

The Poetry of Ring Lardner (1915) is a public domain work.

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Best remembered for his prose, Ring Lardner was also a busy and inventive writer of comic verse, and this collection gathers the poems he scattered through newspapers, magazines, and his own books. The tone runs from gentle nonsense to sharp parody, taking aim at popular songs, sentimental poetry, and the small vanities of everyday life. Lardner had a musician's ear, and much of this work reads like lyrics waiting for a tune, full of sly rhymes and deliberately silly turns. The poems make a fine companion to his stories, showing the same quick wit in a lighter, more playful key.

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Ring Lardner

Ring Lardner (1885-1933) was an American sportswriter, humorist, and short-story writer celebrated for his sharp ear for everyday speech. Beginning as a baseball reporter, he became one of the country's most admired satirists, influencing writers from Hemingway to Fitzgerald with his deadpan vernacular comedy.

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Book facts

Reading time
About 90 minutes
Pages
308
Language
English
Genre
Satire
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Jack Thro