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Category Archives: Clerihew
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — Sausage Dog?
Author’s note: As a child I did not know how to pronounce the surname of the German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. If you have the same problem, it sounds something like “GUR-tuh” — which may not be important in … Continue reading
Tea With Jane Austen
The event obliquely referred to in this clerihew actually occurred even before the author Jane Austen was born, but the two events share an interesting coincidence: the Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773; and Jane Austen was … Continue reading
Ernest Hemingway and Virginia Woolf
I think I should apologise for this clerihew in advance. Here’s one definition of the clerihew verse form: a whimsical, four-line biographical poem. The first line is the name of the poem’s subject, usually a famous person put in an … Continue reading
My Clerihews Re-posted from Light Magazine
My three clerihews below were originally published in the Winter 2014 issue of the online Light poetry magazine (http://www.lightpoetrymagazine.com/). They are now re-posted here. Edward R. Murrow If anything could furrow The brow of Edward Murrow It was Joe McCarthy’s … Continue reading
Posted in Clerihew, Humorous verse
Tagged clerihew, Clinton, Frost, Light, Light magazine, magazine, Murrow
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More Clerihews in ‘Light’ Poetry Magazine
Three more of my clerihews have just been published in the latest issue of the online Light poetry magazine (http://www.lightpoetrymagazine.com/). This time, the subjects are: Edward R. Murrow, Robert Frost, and Bill and Hillary Clinton. This also allows me to post … Continue reading
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Tagged Brynner, Churchill, clerihew, Light, Light magazine, magazine, McLuhan, Tito
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Hall Caine and the Isle of Man
Hall Caine (1853–1931), a novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras, was born in Runcorn, Cheshire, but his father was a Manxman, and Hall Caine himself is usually associated with the Isle of Man. Hall Caine’s novels … Continue reading
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Tagged Caine, clerihew, Hall, Harry Graham, Isle of Man, Manx, More Misrepresentative Men, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Vanity
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Clerihews in ‘Light’ Poetry Magazine
This is a quick note to mention that four of my clerihews have just been published in the online Light poetry magazine. The subjects? Marshall McLuhan, Yul Brynner, Winston Churchill, and Marshal Tito. You can find Light magazine at http://www.lightpoetrymagazine.com/ The current … Continue reading
Edward Gordon Craig
Edward (Ted) Gordon Craig (1872-1966) was one of the two illegitimate children of Ellen Terry (one of the most revered actors on the Victorian stage) and the architect and designer Edward Godwin. He and his sister Edith (Edy) Craig were born while … Continue reading
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Tagged clerihew, Craig, Duncan, Irving, Terry, theatre
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If English Composers Played Soccer…
My recent clerihew about Joseph Paxton and the Crystal Palace reminded me of a clerihew I wrote a while ago about the composer Thomas Tallis (1505 -1585), musing on the possibility of him taking up the round-ball sport. Alas, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bletchley Park, Byrd, clerihew, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, football, Henry VIII, Milligan, Milton Keynes, soccer, Tallis, Turing
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People in Glass Houses … (Joseph Paxton)
Recently I read Bill Bryson’s book At Home: A Short History of Private Life, which starts with an anecdote that is not about private life at all. The anecdote concerns the design and construction of the Crystal Palace, which was … Continue reading
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Tagged clerihew, Crystal Palace, Great Exhibition, Paxton
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