Light poetry

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Template:Short description Template:Redirect Template:Improve-refs Light poetry or light verse is poetry that attempts to be humorous. Light poems are usually brief, can be on a frivolous or serious subject, and often feature word play including puns, adventurous rhyme, and heavy alliteration. Nonsense poetry is often considered light verse, as well as some poems that employ parody or satire.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Typically, light verse in English is formal verse, although a few free verse poets have excelled at light verse outside the formal verse tradition.

While light poetry is sometimes condemned as doggerel or thought of as poetry composed casually, humor often makes a serious point in a subtle or subversive way. Many of the most renowned "serious" poets, such as Horace, Swift, Pope, and Auden, also excelled at light verse.

History

19th Century

Lord Byron's poem Beppo is an early and notable instance of light poetry in the 19th century, though other writers like Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Frederick Locker-Lampson, C. S. Calverley, and Austin Dobson were also influential in the Regency and Victorian eras of the genre.<ref>Template:Cite thesis</ref> The limerick is perhaps the most recognizable form of comic or light poetry, with Edward Lear's The Book of Nonsense being a popular and influential example.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Notable poets

English

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German

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Dutch

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Publications

The following periodicals regularly publish light verse:

See also

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