Words, Words, Words: Mostly Essays on the English Language and Literature

By Glynn Baugher

Witty and stylish essays on the oddities and beauties of the English language; on the greatness of Samuel Johnson; on the comedy of P. G. Wodehouse; on the delights of retirement; on writers savaging other writers; on euphemistic cursing; on strange word origins; on mathematical language; on the majesty of the Irish Literary Renaissance and the power of the Southern American Renascence-on James Joyce, John Millington Synge, Yeats, and Lady Gregory, and on Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Anne Porter, and William Faulkner; poems of love, nature, and comedy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532098804
• ISBN13: 9781532098802
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"