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The Bab Ballads (Harvard paperbacks)

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 | #3486319 in Books |  Belknap Press of Harvard u Press |  2003-04-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.75 x.95 x7.13l,1.39 | File type: PDF | 384 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A fifth star for James Ellis' edition!|By PHILIPPE VANDENBOSSCHE| asks me: "How would you describe the plot of this book?" Well... it's a collection of light verse! Let's be merry, and say it has "some twists" :) In a more serious way -which isn't the best way to talk about about light verse, I'm afraid- I could say that I've finally found the English counterpart of the late| |The Bab Ballads of W. S. Gilbert, admirably introduced and annotated by James Ellis, is a real treat. (New Yorker)

Thanks to Mr. Ellis, all the known poems...dress-rehearsals as it were for the operas, are now printed together. And of

W. S. Gilbert, renowned author of the Savoy Operas, was also the creator of the Bab Ballads--"possibly the best comic verse--and surely the best illustrated--in the English language," according to James Ellis. Gilbert published these poems, together with his own, grotesque drawings signed "Bab," a childhood nickname, in Fun and other magazines in the late nineteenth century.

In 1898, the older and by then distinguished Gilbert substituted p...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Bab Ballads (Harvard paperbacks)   |  W. S. Gilbert. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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