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John Updike94 ratings, 3.80 average rating, 11 reviews
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“Examples abound: one final one. On the copyright page of his first book, The Works of Max Beerbohm, Max found the imprint
London: JOHN LANE, The Bodley Head
New York: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Beneath it, he wrote in pen:
This plain announcement, nicely read.
Iambically runs.
The effortless a-b-a-b rhyming, the balance of "plain" and "nicely," the need for nicety in pronouncing "Iambically" to scan - this is quintessential light verse, a twitting of the starkest prose into perfect form, a marriage of earth with light, and quite magical. Indeed, were I a high priest of literature, I would have this quatrain made into an amulet and wear it about my neck, for luck.
----John Updike, writing about the poetry of Max Beerbohm”
― Assorted Prose
London: JOHN LANE, The Bodley Head
New York: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Beneath it, he wrote in pen:
This plain announcement, nicely read.
Iambically runs.
The effortless a-b-a-b rhyming, the balance of "plain" and "nicely," the need for nicety in pronouncing "Iambically" to scan - this is quintessential light verse, a twitting of the starkest prose into perfect form, a marriage of earth with light, and quite magical. Indeed, were I a high priest of literature, I would have this quatrain made into an amulet and wear it about my neck, for luck.
----John Updike, writing about the poetry of Max Beerbohm”
― Assorted Prose