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COMPLETE CLERIEWS OF E CLERIHEW BENTLY by Gaven Ewart

Posted by Brian Strand on 7/20/2025 4:08:40 AM

QUATRAINS WITH A NAME

Edmund Clerihew Bentley
wrote poetry everso gently.
His greatest claim to fame
immortalised his mother's maiden name

According to to his son Nicholas ,Bentley's thought his greatest life-time achievement was ' to live to see the word 'clerihew' enshrined in the Oxford Dictionary as part of the English language'.This delightful short book of 120 pages(isbn 0192813919) is a definitive guide thereto comprising poems and illustrations of this pithy quatrain poetic form.It includes a twenty page introduction by Gavin Ewart which together makes this a 'must have' on the bookshelf of the serious student of poetic forms.


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