With the "Faber Book of English History in Verse" and his collection of poems and parodies, "Unauthorized Versions", Kenneth Baker, the Home Secretary, is an established editor and anthologist. In this book he turns his attention to the field of satire and invective. From Dryden and Swift, to Christopher Logue and Roger McGough, English poets have shown a special talent for voicing their outrage and contempt in the face of smugness, hypocrisy, overweening power, philistinism and all the vices and foibles of public life.
- ISBN13 9780571162352
- Publish Date 2 September 1991
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 6 July 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Paperback
- Pages 208
- Language English