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Sour Sonnets of a Sorehead & Other Songs of the Street
Author: James P. Haverson
Hard cover. Good condition.
First published in 1908 in Toronto, this is a collection of humorous and satirical verse illustrated by Fergus Kyle. The collection presents the voice of a working-class "sorehead"—a disgruntled but witty narrator who complains about unemployment, bad luck, poverty, politics, and everyday urban life. Written in lively Canadian dialect, the poems combine the traditional sonnet form with slang, irony, and street humour, poking fun at social conventions while expressing sympathy for ordinary people struggling to make ends meet. Beyond the sixteen "Sorehead Sonnets," the volume includes additional poems and songs that explore city life, friendship, ambition, and human nature with warmth and comic insight. Today the book is valued as an early example of Canadian urban poetry and an entertaining snapshot of working-class life in the early twentieth century
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