Download or read book The New Oxford Book of Light Verse written by Kingsley Amis and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingsley Amis has achieved his main objective in compiling The New Oxford Book of Light Verse--to raise a good-natured smile--by providing a witty and consistently entertaining survey of this tradition of English Writing. The book ranges from satire to nonsense verse, from deft vers de societe to epigrams and limericks.