light verse
Americannoun
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Lovely flourishes remind us of Updike’s talent for light verse.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2025
Osgood was a broadcaster who could write essays and light verse as well as report hard news, and he worked radio and television with equal facility.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
I last saw “Cats,” Lloyd Webber’s song-cycle adaptation of T. S. Eliot’s bizarro light verse collection, “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats,” in the mid-to-late 1980s at the Santa Monica Civic Center.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2020
“Cats,” Andrew Lloyd Webber’s blockbuster spun from the light verse of T.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
Like him, he wrote light verse and devotional poems, and, as in the case of Desportes, the religious poems are—rather contrary to the reader's expectation—the best of the two.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
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