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John Gross is a writer and reviewer. He was editor of the Times
Literary Supplement from 1974 to 1981, on the staff of the New York
Times from 1983 to 1988, and theatre critic of the Sunday Telegraph
from 1998 to 2005. His books include The Rise and Fall of the Man
of Letters (1969; new edn 1991), Shylock: A Legend and Its Legacy
(1992), and a memoir A Double Thread (2002). He has edited the
Oxford Books of Aphorisms (1983),
Essays (1991), and Literary Anecdotes (2006), and The New Oxford
Book of English Prose (1998). His most recent anthology is After
Shakespeare (2002).
`Review from previous edition the laughter quotient is greatly
boosted by many unfamiliar delights'
Times Literary Supplement
`Mr Gross has put enough plums in his pudding to cheer the most
melancholy reader.'
Ned Sherrin, Evening Standard
`John Gross has rightly relied on instinct, selected widely, and
spared us too much agonising about what constitutes comic
verse.'
Literary Review
`hugely enjoyable'
London Evening Standard
`Almost every quotation in this new Oxford collection amused me ...
This is a good anthology.'
F.E. Pardoe, Birmingham Post
`it is hard to voice any complaint whatever about an anthology so
replete with riches - one, moreover, upholding the idea of humour
as a by-product of an idiosyncratic vision, with ease-of-manner
resulting from a cast-iron control ... True comic verse, as we find
here, is always inseparable from comic verve.'
Gerald Jacobs, The Spectator
`Review from previous edition the laughter quotient is greatly boosted by many unfamiliar delights' Times Literary Supplement `Mr Gross has put enough plums in his pudding to cheer the most melancholy reader.' Ned Sherrin, Evening Standard `John Gross has rightly relied on instinct, selected widely, and spared us too much agonising about what constitutes comic verse.' Literary Review `hugely enjoyable' London Evening Standard `Almost every quotation in this new Oxford collection amused me ... This is a good anthology.' F.E. Pardoe, Birmingham Post `it is hard to voice any complaint whatever about an anthology so replete with riches - one, moreover, upholding the idea of humour as a by-product of an idiosyncratic vision, with ease-of-manner resulting from a cast-iron control ... True comic verse, as we find here, is always inseparable from comic verve.' Gerald Jacobs, The Spectator
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