The fox and the grapes / Aesop
The oxen and the butchers / Babrius
from Dialogues of the dead / Lucian
from Dialogues of the Gods / Lucian
Book I, satire IV / Horace
from The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer
The pardoner's prologue and tale
from Colloquies / Erasmus
Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare
A passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe
The nymph's reply to the shepherd / Sir Walter Raleigh
Eipgrams and The will / John Donne
Characters / Sir Thomas Overbury and John Earle
A young gentleman of the university / Earle
A pretender to learning / Earle
Four invectives / William Shakespeare, King James I, and William Prynne
Prince Hal to Falstaff, from Henry IV, part I / Shakespeare
from A counterblaste to tobacco / James I
from Histrio-mastix / Prynne
On women cutting their hair short / Prynne
from Hudibras / Samuel Butler
The maimed débauchée / Rochester
Satire against mankind / Rochester
from Maxims / La Rouchefoucauld
Two poems / Andrew Marvell
To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell
Flecknoe, an English priest at Rome / Andrew Marvell
Mac Flecknoe / John Dryden
from The tatler and The spectator / Joseph Addison
Dissecting of a beau's head
The rape of the lock and two short satires / Alexander Pope
The character of Atticus, from the epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
from Satires and epistles of Horace imitated
Four satires / Jonathan Swift
A meditation upon a broomstick
A satirical elegy on the death of a late famous general
Thoughts on various subjects
from The Persian letters / Montesquieu
Letter 48, Usbek to Rhedi, at Venice
from The citizen of the world / Oliver Goldsmith
Letters 86, The races of Newmarket ridiculed
from Poor Richard's almanacks / Benjamin Franklin
The sale of the Hessians / Benjamin Franklin
Holy Willie's prayer / Robert Burns
from The triumph of infidelity / Timothy Dwight
Two poems / Robert Browning
Soliloquy of the Spanish cloister
from Home as found / James Fenimore Cooper
Five satires / Samuel Clemens
The awful German language, from A tramp abroad
Fenimore Cooper's literary offenses
from A double-barrelled detective story
To the person sitting in darkness
The war prayer, from Europe and elsewhere
from The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit / Charles Dickens
from Through the looking-glass and What Alice found there / Lewis Carroll
Chapter VI: Humpty-Dumpty
Five poems / Emily Dickinson
Apparently with no surprise
God is indeed a jealous God
Much madness is divinest sense
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
After great drink / Nils Peterson
Nephelidia / Algernon Swinburne
On the aristocracy of Harvard / John Collins Bossidy
Quatrain / Sarah Cleghorn
The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough
Two column / Finley Peter Dunne
On preparing for the invasion of Cuba
On Roosevelt's The rough riders
Seven poems / Stephen Crane
Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind
A newspaper is a collection of half-in justices
A man said to the universe
I saw a man pursuing the horizon
God fashioned the ship of the world carefully
Four Poems / Thomas Hardy
Ah, are you digging on my grave?
from Fantastic fables / Ambrose Bierce
from The devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce
Fragment of a Greek tragedy / A. E. Housman
from Penguin island / Anatole France
Book II, chapter one: The first clothes
from The old soak's history of the world / Don Marquis
Chapter One: Men are not dessended off of monkeys
The hills of Zion / H. L. Mencken
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Three poems / Robert Frost
Three poems / E. E. Cummings
Three poems / Dorothy Parker
Opera synopsis / Robert Benchley
Die meister-genossenschaft
from Babbitt / Sinclair Lewis
Pilgrim dads land on Mass. coast town / Franklin P. Adams
The rich man / Franklin P. Adams
In Westminster Abbey / John Betjeman
The unknown citizen / W. H. Auden
Naming of parts / Henry Reed
from Generation of vipers / Philip Wylie
Introduction to the twentieth printing
from Chapter XI: common women
The valient woman / J. F. Powers
The keeper of the gelded unicorn / Ira Wallach
The cliché expert testifies on the atom / Frank Sullivan
Inflexible logic / Russell Maloney
Postal system input buffer device / J. Robertson and G. Osborne
Early morning of a motion-picture executive / Thomas Meehan
Two columns / Art Buchwald
A test for GOP speechwriters
On the eloquence of the presidential candidate / Jules Feiffer
The gray squirrel / Humbert Wolfe
Freud on football / Thomas Hornsby Ferril
Introduction to Feiffer's album / Jules Feiffer
A modest proposal for the termination of the war in Vietnam, {etc.} / John M. Stuart
If the spirit of rebellion runs its course / Edwin A. Roberts, Jr.
from Bored of the rings / Henry N. Beard and Douglas C. Kenney
Two columns / Arthur Hoppe
Satire: some definitions.
