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Title: Byrne by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0-7867-0575-2 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Burgess's Byrne great versifying fun
Comment: How can I describe "Byrne," a book by Burgess / (Anthony)? Putative novel, his last (O sorrow!). / 'S about one Michael Byrne, a "defective lecherous / Dreamer," all in ottava rima, (borrowed / From Ariosto), but which, to be sure, here is / Livelier and more fun than a carload / Of television sitcoms, no matter they / Be on Sunday, Wednesday or Saturday. / More Rabelaisian and Rabelais, / Out-Byrons Byron's endless long "Don Juan," / Satire, outrageous rhymes, in many ways / Better than Happy Hour,a ten-cent brew one / Downs; a treat for e'en those who're too laz- / Y or wary of poetic doin'. / Relax, sit back, you've got a lot to learn / From this wild poetic novel 'titled "Byrne." / "Why choose this agony of versifying / Instead of tapping journalistic prose?" / Burgess asks, but we know he's simply trying / To have some fun, which, as everybody knows, / 'S not easy in this oft PC-ifying / World where everything--and nothing--goes. / Burgess shows that poetry can be fun, / Hilariously accessible to everyone. / Well p'rhaps not everyone. Halfway through he / Briefly changes to a different scheme, / A loftier prosody, more chewy, / Used by dreary Spenser in "Fairie Queene" / (Which we all suffered through in academe). / Meanwhile Tim and Tom appear, reprehend / Vanished pater, etcetera. I deem / "Byrne" versifying fun, it recommend. / It's one of those, you hate to see it end. ---James Hursey
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Title: The Doctor Is Sick by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0393316025 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0393315088 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Honey for the Bears (Norton Paperback Fiction) by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0393314413 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: One Hand Clapping: A Novel by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0786706317 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: A Dead Man in Deptford by Anthony Burgess ISBN: 0786711523 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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