Item
Jam with My Bread
- Title
- Jam with My Bread
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)
- en_US Inscribed by John Lyth
- John Lyth
- Creator
- en_US Lyth, John See all items with this value
- Contributor
- Clarke, Richard E.
- en_US Foreword by F. Heathcote Briant
- Date
- 2016-04-20T15:51:09Z
- en_US 2016-02
- en_US 1950
- Date Available
- 2016-04-20T15:51:09Z
- Date Issued
- 1950
- Abstract
- en_US The title continues "being ventures in story and verse together with 14 paraphrases (by permission) of James Thurber's Fables for Our Time." John Lyth is identified on the title-page as a postal servant. It was frankly not easy to find the Thurber paraphrases as I paged through this book of 168 pages. On perhaps the third try, I began to catch on that "Hands across the Atlantic" is the appropriate section, beginning with a "decoration" picturing an elderly man seated among flowers and flanked by a bird and a rabbit. The titles of these fourteen poems do not match Thurber's. They are the kind of poetry that thrives on rhyme and irregular word order. An example might be the last stanza of the story of a hen who preferred to walk across the road, rejecting the duck who flew hens to the other side: "the hen who aviation scorned,/With those who marched her flag beneath,/Run over were and died unmourned/For none survived to lay a wreath" (47). TMCM -- here "Impatience Is No Virtue" (46) -- remains a favorite of mine. However, my prize goes to "Dignity and Impudence" (49). Young turkey and old come to blows, but before they can settle their deeply felt dispute, the farmer kills both for Christmas dinner! The moral here for TH is "Book-writers don't know everything!" (51). Little Red Riding Hood again shoots the wolf in granny's bed. Lyth is true to Thurber's fresh insight couched in story form. The last Thurberesque poem, "Apocalypse" (61), hits as hard as ever!
- Identifier
- 10601 (Access ID)
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- en_US Herald Printing Works
- en_US York
- Subject
- en_US PS3523.Y864J3 1950 See all items with this value
- en_US John Lyth; after James Thurber See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books