There’s a porpoise close behind us
Michael Dobson, 13 November 1997
The Origins of English Nonsense
by Noel Malcolm.
HarperCollins, 329 pp., £18, May 1997,0 00 255827 0 Show More
by Noel Malcolm.
HarperCollins, 329 pp., £18, May 1997,
“... Prince d’Amour’ for Christmas 1597). This is the set of ‘Cabalistical Verses’ prefaced to Thomas Coryate’s eccentric account of a European tour, Coryats Crudities Hastily gobled up in five Moneths of travell (1611), a book which, mock-patronised by Prince Henry, is introduced by laboriously facetious ... ”