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...Dwight MacDonald must have thoroughly enjoyable time his nearly 600 pages of ; they do indeed stretch Chaucer to Beerbohm--and Anyone who has read a number of medieval will no doubt find Chaucer's of Sir Thopas delightful, but I that MacDonald's interest purely historical. Beerbohm other figure of the title--is matter: he is unquestion the greatest of the parodists. (for instance), a take Henry James' later work, is raordinarily engaging piece of ; it begins...
They were never so lucky before, and they certainly were far less adept. But to judge from MacDonald's collection, four centuries have yielded some intelligent and ingenious parodies as well as a lot of tripe. Wordsworth, Browning, and Swinburne, have paid well for their more curious mannerisms of style. J. K. Stephen cautiously and respectfully parodies Browning in a poem of "sincere flattery" that ends...
Benchley was associated with the New Yorker, and as MacDonald points out, so also were nearly all the good parodists of this century: Peter de Vries, Wolcott Gibbs, Frank Sullivan, and E. B. White. Their victims' language is pleasantly familiar, and for that modern parodies seem the funniest. One probably has to be a kind of literary snob to appreciate parody anyway, and although we are often told solemnly that parody must be funny in itself and not just because it mocks something, it is very satisfying to recognise a small and particular bit of cleverness. Of the contemporary rash...
...would be easy to keep quoting this section of MacDonald's anthology. I ought to mention Henry Reed's "Chard ("As we get older we do not younger"), better even than parodies of Eliot, and of Gertrude Stein that a MacDonald informs us is the dying words of Dutch . Also, I should have thought to parody Robert yet Firman Houghton has go to Boston, see the up and down again, and "That's the way with and with people." He closes don't get me wrong. I wouldn...
Little Caroline Kennedy was almost an assistant hostess. Togged out in a white organdy dress embroidered with pink and green rosebuds ("It's my very best"), she had a smile for every visitor and tapped her foot delicately when the Marine Band played her own request: Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Said the First Lady, pleased by her daughter's White House social debut: "I'd much rather she learned these things firsthand than have her hear us talking about them upstairs...