The Stuffed Owl : An Anthology of Bad Verse (Hardcover)

from KayCliff

A very tongue-in-the-cheek 'Anthology of Bad Verse', compiled, prefaced, hilariously annotated, sub-titled and indexed by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee, includes a masterpiece of humorous indexing in its nine-page index. All entries are perfectly valid, some object-lessons in subjectheading...

from jsburbidge

This is a classic, and very funny, anthology of found humour in the form of bad poetry, ranging from errors by major poets -- Dryden, Wordsworth, Byron, and Tennyson all show up, and the title is that of a Wordsworth sonnet ("Yet, helped by Genius -- untired Comforter,/ The presence even of a stu...

from IreneF

Full of bathos and just plain bad poetry, but you have to take it in small bites, otherwise you just get overwhelmed. To mend the movement of your heart, How great is my delight! Gently to wind your morals up And set your hand aright! --From "A Runcible Thought" by Edward Young. Noted as addresse...

from antiquary

A collection of verse the editors considered bad, from Abraham Cowley to Alfred Lord Tennyson (roughly from mid 17th century to the end of the 19th). Nearly all are English authors, but a few pieces by Emerson are included.

from KayCliff

A very tongue-in-the-cheek 'Anthology of Bad Verse', compiled, prefaced, hilariously annotated, sub-titled and indexed by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee, includes a masterpiece of humorous indexing in its nine-page index. All entries are perfectly valid, some object-lessons in subjectheading...