The anatomy of satire

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"Professor Highet manages to cover an astonishing amount of ground in less than 300 pages. Few who can ránk as satirists seem to be left out. He ranges ( from early classical times, on which, as might be expected from so noted a classícal scholar, he is especially iHüminating, to Mr. Evelyn Waugh and Miss Mary McCarthy. As history this is a most valuable reference book . . . a book to be reád with pleasure, to ponder at leisure, and if not to leave a clear idea of * the morphology of satire, at least to send us back with more alert eyes to our own favorité satirists and induce us to explore new ones.'- Times Educational Supplement (London) • / / "It is probably the best critical history of satirical literature that has ever been written."-Burling Lowrey, Washington Post & Times Herald "A most readable book which takes thé reader on a world tour and shows him every variety of satirfe humán ingenuity has devised."-Willard Thorp, New York Herald Tribüné "A personal critique of a... Tovább

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"Professor Highet manages to cover an astonishing amount of ground in less than 300 pages. Few who can ránk as satirists seem to be left out. He ranges ( from early classical times, on which, as might be expected from so noted a classícal scholar, he is especially iHüminating, to Mr. Evelyn Waugh and Miss Mary McCarthy. As history this is a most valuable reference book . . . a book to be reád with pleasure, to ponder at leisure, and if not to leave a clear idea of * the morphology of satire, at least to send us back with more alert eyes to our own favorité satirists and induce us to explore new ones.'- Times Educational Supplement (London) • / / "It is probably the best critical history of satirical literature that has ever been written."-Burling Lowrey, Washington Post & Times Herald "A most readable book which takes thé reader on a world tour and shows him every variety of satirfe humán ingenuity has devised."-Willard Thorp, New York Herald Tribüné "A personal critique of a complex and lively organism, a work of startiing erudition voiced with amiable, if sometimes dour, humanism. Most important, the book is an illuminating attempt to deal with the real artistic mechanisms, the dynamic'systems, by which satire lives and does its delightfully dirty work."-Modern Philology "Since I began studying philology, this is the first scholarly work which has taught me, excited me, and amused me."-Guy Cambier, Revue Belge "Anyone trying to anatomize a subject as bewilderingly various as Satire had better start by being learned. It is an assignment for neither the amateur nor the crank, but only for a scholar with a rich and perceptive experience of all the ipossíble satiric variations, ancient and modern, gloomy and genial, in prose and verse. It is, in fact, an assignment for Professor Highet."-John Peter, Modern Language Review (England) Gilbert Highet, Anthon Professor Emeritus of the Latin Language and Literature, Columbia University, is the author of several books, including the definitive book on the greatest Román satiric poet, Juvenal the Satirist. He has alsó written a number of satiric parodies of modern authors, including a Canto for Ezra Pound, which has been reprinted in several anthologies of parody. For The Anatomy of Satire he received the Award of Merít of the American Philological Association in 1963. His latest book is The Speeches in VergiVs "Aeneid" (Princeton, 1972). Vissza