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This category lists works primarily written as pieces of humour.
Satirical reference works
[edit]Humorous poetry
[edit]- The Rape of the Lock, 1714 by Alexander Pope
- The Diverting History of John Gilpin, 1782 by William Cowper
- The Devil's Walk, 1798 by Robert Southey
- The child is father to the man, by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Latest Decalogue, by Arthur Hugh Clough
- A Book of Nonsense, 1846 by Edward Lear
- The Quangle-Wangle's Hat, by Edward Lear
- Cobbler and Stork, by Eugene Field
- The Gipsy Praises his Horse, by Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj
- Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1871 by Edward Lear
- More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc., 1872 by Edward Lear
- The New Vestments, 1876 by Edward Lear
- The Hunting of the Snark, 1876 by Lewis Carroll
- The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò, 1877 by Edward Lear
- Phantasmagoria and Other Poems, 1883 by Lewis Carroll (collection)
- Two Mock Epics, 1894 by Svatopluk Čech and Walter William Strickland
- Ben King's Verse, 1894 by Benjamin Franklin King
- Archy and mehitabel, 1916 by Don Marquis (collection)
- The Maiden of Kercheezer, 1924 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Kissing of Sal Snooboo, 1925 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Conversion of St. Vladimir by Karel Havlíček Borovský, translated by Ernst Altschul (1930)
- Tyrolean Elegies by Karel Havlíček Borovský, translated by Roderick Aldrich Ginsburg (c1932)
- The Weakling, 1986 by Robert Ervin Howard
- A Song of Cheer, 2007 by Robert Ervin Howard
Humorous prose
[edit]- Miss Albina McLush, by Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Bon-Bon, 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Duc de L'Omelette, 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe
- Loss of Breath, 1832 by Edgar Allan Poe
- A Predicament, 1838 by Edgar Allan Poe
- Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling, 1840 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Business Man, 1840 by Edgar Allan Poe
- Never Bet the Devil Your Head, 1841 by Edgar Allan Poe
- Three Sundays in a Week, 1841 by Edgar Allan Poe
- Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences, 1843 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Angel of the Odd, 1844 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Spectacles, 1844 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether, 1844 by Edgar Allan Poe
- Vanity Fair, 1847 by William Makepeace Thackeray
- X-ing a Paragrab, 1849 by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Canterville Ghost, 1887 by Oscar Wilde
- Tag or The Chien Boule Dog, 1909 by Valance J Patriarche
- The Secretary of the American Radio Relay League Offers a Reward!, December 1915 by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska (editors)
- In An American Radio Relay League Station, January 1916
- Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers, 1916 by Don Marquis
- The Reward is Given!, February 1916 by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska (editors)
- Queen Lucia, 1920 by E. F. Benson
- Miss Mapp, 1922 by E. F. Benson
- West Is West, 1922 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Aha! or The Mystery of the Queen's Necklace, 1923 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Sheik, 1923 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Unhand Me, Villain, 1923 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Halt! Who Goes There?, 1924 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Ideal Girl, 1925 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Weekly Short Story, 1926 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Reformation: A Dream, 1927 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Thessalians, 1927 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Ye College Days, 1927 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Musings of a Moron, by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Road to Bear Creek, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Scalp Hunter, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
- A Gent from Bear Creek, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Guns of the Mountains, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Mountain Man, 1934 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Apache Mountain War, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Cupid From Bear Creek, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Feud Buster, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Haunted Mountain, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Riot at Cougar Paw, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
- War on Bear Creek, 1935 by Robert Ervin Howard
- The Conquerin' Hero of the Humbolts, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Evil Deeds at Red Cougar, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
- High Horse Rampage, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
- No Cowherders Wanted, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Pilgrims to the Pecos, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Pistol Politics, 1936 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Sharp's Gun Serenade, 1937 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Texas John Alden, 1944 by Robert Ervin Howard
- Maple and Tea, 2007 by Dmitrii Kouznetsov