02721cam a22003373u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000700012624500320019626400510022830000470027933600260032633700260035233800360037850000310041450800140044552016710045953400680213065300260219865300350222485600620225985600430232199900190236477833UtSlPG20260610134814.0mcr n260607r20261922utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a22016723  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPN1 aHenderson, W. Brooks Draytonq(Walter Brooks Drayton),d1887-193910aPoems from Punch, 1909-1920 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-02-01  aAl Haines  a"Poems from Punch, 1909-1920" by W. Brooks Drayton Henderson is a poetry anthology written in the early 20th century. It gathers humorous and satirical verse from Punch magazine, framed by an introductory essay on the “Comic Spirit,” and ranges across pre-war high spirits, wartime endurance, and post-war readjustment. Expect agile light verse on love, London, sport, the sea, and university life alongside patriotic and elegiac notes from the war years.

The opening of the collection presents Henderson’s extended preface, a lively critical essay arguing that true comedy is the swift triumph of the small over the seemingly great, illustrated by examples from nursery rhyme, painting, fiction, and music, and then applied to the decade’s themes—suffrage, war, sport, fairies and ships, and national discipline—while flagging emblematic war pieces included in the volume. A prefatory note credits authors and publishers and is followed by a detailed contents list. The first run of poems showcases the range: a satirist’s origin story (“The School for Motley”), a plea for milder romance (“To the God of Love”), a comic domestic standoff amid suffragette tactics (“The New Resistance”), ragtime farewells, season-bound affections, and wry odes to wasps, daffodils, rosemary, and ducks. It then turns to sport and the outdoors—hunting, trout, rowing at Putney, hounds, cricket and golf—country shooting and even a jittery first aeroplane flight, before shifting to school and university pieces that cherish undergraduate rooms and record wartime Cambridge and Oxford transformed by khaki. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922  aEnglish wit and humor  aEnglish poetry -- 20th century4 uhttps://archive.org/details/poemsfrompunch00hend/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77833  c118553d118553