Edmund Clerihew Bentley: 3 books
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Edmund Clerihew Bentley - E. C. Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956) was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. One of the best known is this (1905):
His detective...
by Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
The Art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about Chaps.
With these rhyming lines, English novelist and humorist Edmund Clerihew Bentley introduces this book and an unusual form of verse of his own invention. Bentley's four-line poems, known as "clerihews,"...
by E. C. Bentley, Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
A popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. One of the best known is this (1905): Sir Christopher Wren Said, "I am going to dine with some men. If anyone calls Say I am designing...