T.S. ELIOT, THE MUSIC OF POETRY — Edward Lear's nonsense is not vacuity of sense: it is... parody of sense. ... "The Jumblies" is a poem of adventure and... nostalgia. ... "The Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo" and "The Dong with a Luminous Nose" are... of unrequited passion: "blues" in fact.
A. | Browning selection? | TOASTER |
B. | Limerick's river | SHANNON |
C. | In prosody, continued on a new line without a pause or break | ENJAMBED |
D. | Site of St. Bernadette's visions | LOURDES |
E. | Hard to keep on the shelf (2 wds.) | INDEMAND |
F. | Adiposis | OBESITY |
G. | Those agreeable to a fault | TOADIES |
H. | ___ & Co., Manhattan store that is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places | TIFFANY |
I. | State that may be entered after a countdown | HYPNOSIS |
J. | What people in Tallinn speak | ESTONIAN |
K. | Title renounced by Lafayette | MARQUIS |
L. | Still resistant to being cracked | UNSOLVED |
M. | Othello, to Brabantio (hyph.) | SONINLAW |
N. | Artless, naive; candid | INGENUOUS |
O. | Predator of a gazelle | CHEETAH |
P. | Word punned upon in Frost's "Mending Wall" | OFFENSE |
Q. | Metaphor for unwanted public visibility | FISHBOWL |
R. | Owl's pea-green boat companion in a light verse | PUSSYCAT |
S. | What the mome raths did in "Jabberwocky" | OUTGRABE |
T. | On the way, in transit (2 wds.) | ENROUTE |
U. | Cafe for snacks in Britain (2 wds.) | TEASHOP |
V. | Collection of ancient Hindu hymns (hyph.) | RIGVEDA |
W. | Making peak calls? | YODELING |