The Burgess Nonsense Book: Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess, Esq.

by Gelett Burgess

Excerpt from The Burgess Nonsense Book: Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess, Esq.

City Flora The Giant Horse The Purple Cow Digital Extremities The Lazy Roof Remarkable Art The Lecture The Window Pain Streets of Glue Glue Streets.

Genres: Humor

243 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1901

About the author

Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the term "blurb."