SOURCE: “Humour, Mature and Childlike,” in The Language of Literature: English Grammar in Action, Macmillan, 1985, pp. 137-38.
In the following essay, Cottle lauds Nash's humorous verse, contending that “he is genuinely observant of what is abidingly and harmlessly funny, he is not sick or bitter, he uses for uproarious ends the methods of poetry, the vision and vicissitudes of the poetic life.”
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