Author and humorist George Plimpton leads members of The First Poetry Quartet through a rare assemblage of limericks, epigrams, humorous epitaphs, parodies and poetic put-downs. Viewers will discover the shortest poem in the English language, and also the longest. Topics include classical art, automobiles, journalism, music, sports, elocution and etiquette.
Poems include:

"Midsummer Melancholy" - by Margaret Fishback
"Nurses all-and I mean the breed" - by George S. Kaufman
"Hero and Leander" - by Joseph S. Newman
"Charge of the Grid Brigade" - by George S. Applegarth
"Seaside Golf" - by John Betjeman
"Mullion" - by A.P. Herbert
Two United Parodies - by Paul Dehn
"The Idiot Boy" - by Rudyard Kipling
"Soliloquy" from Huckleberry Finn - by Mark Twain>/blockquote>