04791nam 2200685 450 991080982180332120230725032804.01-4081-6402-71-283-47838-21-4081-4589-897866134783821-4081-4590-1(CKB)2670000000153384(EBL)833612(OCoLC)779827173(SSID)ssj0000621463(PQKBManifestationID)11386118(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000621463(PQKBWorkID)10616871(PQKB)11058913(MiAaPQ)EBC833612(MiAaPQ)EBC4948130(MiAaPQ)EBC6163093(Au-PeEL)EBL4948130(CaONFJC)MIL347838(OCoLC)1024265442(EXLCZ)99267000000015338420200721d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe complete verse of Noël Coward /edited and with a commentary, Barry Day1st ed.London :Methuen Drama,[2011]©20111 online resource (744 p.)Diaries, Letters and EssaysDescription based upon print version of record.1-4081-3174-9 Cover; Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Credits And Acknowledgements; Dedication; Introduction; 1. The Young Idea (1907-?1922); 'Vegetable Verse'; The Animal Kingdom; Romantic/Gothic; Nonsense Verse/Limerick; Scenes of Suburbia; 'Those Were the Days'; 2. 'Cod Pieces'; 'The Swiss Family Whittlebot' (Sketch - 1923); Early Whittlebot Poems; Poems by Hernia Whittlebot; Chelsea Buns (1925); Spangled Unicorn (1932); Reversion to the Formal; How Does Your Garden Grow; Hungry Land; Necromancy; Harlem; Ma People; Moss; Curve In Curve Out; Church of England; Sampan; The Emperor's DaughterThe Voice in the Bamboo ShootEvery Day; Theatre Party; Harlot's Song; Picnic Near Toledo; 'Flamenco'; Torero; 'Deirdre'; 'The Whisht Paple'; 'Pastoral'; First Love; Freundschaft; 'Youth'; Legend; Sicilian Study; Richmond Boating Song; Old Things Are Far the Best; The Nursemaid; Sunburn; To Rudyard Kipling; Dawn; 3. 'Family . . . Friends . . . and Others'; 'Family' . . .; Violet Coward; Lorn Loraine; Joyce Carey; Jack Wilson; Kay Thompson/Graham Payn; Cole Lesley; Gladys Calthrop; 'Friends' . . .; Edwina Mountbatten; Hope Williams; 4. Words of War; Bread and Butter5. Shall We Join the Ladies . . . ?Mary Baker Eddy; Marie Stopes; Ella Wheeler Wilcox; Beatrice Eden; 6. Indefinite Thoughts on the Infinite; 7. The Theatre: 'A Temple of Dreams'; The Boy Actor; Ode to Italia Conti; Concert Types; When Babsie Got the Bird; To Meg Titheradge; To Mary MacArthur; Irene Vanbrugh Memorial Matinée: The Epilogue; Tribute to Ivor Novello; 'Dearest Binkie, dearest Bink'; Thoughts on Beatrice Lillie; 'Darling Alfred, dainty Lynn'; I Resent Your Attitude to Mary; Tribute to Marlene Dietrich; Epitaph for an Elderly Actress; Critics; Words . . .; . . . and Music. . . and a Literary Footnote8. 'I Travel Alone'; On Leaving England for the First Time; P&O 1930; Pleasure Cruise; Souvenir; Lines to a Fellow Passenger; The Little Men Who Travel Far; Malta; Go to Malta, Little Girl; Thoughts on Corsica; Venice; Oh Walter Dear; Bali; Bora Bora; Martinique; Oh Dear; The Quinta Bates (Aunt Bates); From One Chap to Another: A Complaint; Jeunesse Dorée; 9. 'If Love Were All'; This Is to Let You Know; I Knew You without Enchantment; I Am No Good at Love; 10. 'The Party'S Over Now'; When I Have Fears; I'm Here for a Short Visit Only; Footnote; Part 8; *Editor BiographyImprintThree volumes of his verse were published in Coward's lifetime, but while The Complete Verse features all of the work from these three volumes it also presents previously unpublished material for the very first time. Coward expert Barry Day has collected together the additional verse which Coward sent to family and friends and which paints a vivid portrait of his more private life. For anyone who has enjoyed the Diaries or the Letters of Noel Coward , The Complete Verse offers further enjoyment and appreciation of Coward's wit, insatiable interest in people and skilful rendering of his public Diaries, Letters and EssaysEnglish poetryEnglish poetry.821.008Coward Noel1899-1973.131529Day BarryMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910809821803321The complete verse of Noël Coward4092453UNINA