More Bab Ballads
W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert
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Description
W. S. Gilbert's second set of Bab Ballads appears here from the 1920 Macmillan edition. The contents list more than forty comic poems. They open with The Bumboat Woman's Story and The Two Ogres. Pasha Bailey Ben, Lieutenant-Colonel Flare, and Lost Mr. Blake follow in Gilbert's flawless rhymes.
Later ballads offer The Captain and the Mermaids, The Fairy Curate, and The Reverend Simon Magus. A long closing piece is simply called Etiquette. Gilbert punctures pompous officials and impossible lovers with an arch, humane voice. These verses, many first printed in the magazine Fun, fed the plots and patter of his famous operas with Sullivan.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 133 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |