A clerihew (/ˈklɛrɪhjuː/) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The first line is the name of the...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956), who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist...

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (inventor of the clerihew verse form), he was given the name Nicholas, but opted to change the spelling. Nicholas Clerihew Bentley...

the "Clerihew Store", a device for drying coffee beans, for which he received the Isis Gold Medal. Clerihew was born in Aberdeen, to George Clerihew, builder...

Poetry portal Chastushka – Short Russian or Ukrainian humorous folk song Clerihew – Whimsical, four-line biographical poem Double dactyl – Fixed verse form...

Trent's Last Case 1st edition Author Edmund Clerihew Bentley Language English Genre Mystery, detective fiction Publisher Nelson Publication date 1913 Publication...

least some formal conventions. Common forms include the limerick, the clerihew, and the double dactyl. While light poetry is sometimes condemned as doggerel...

light verse competitions as part of its Style Invitational Alla barnen Clerihew Double dactyl Epigram Limerick McWhirtle Michael Braude Award for Light...

some men. If anyone calls, Say I'm designing Saint Paul's." A clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley In designing St Paul's, Christopher Wren had to meet...

but by inmates at Brest Prison, with records dating back to 1821. Edmund Clerihew Bentley used the language as a plot point in his 1937 short story "The...

Academic Graffiti (1971), the poet W.H. Auden memorialized Xanthippe in a clerihew: Whenever Xantippe Wasn't feeling too chippy, She would bawl at Socrates:...

verbatim) Chastushka: ABAB, ABCB, or AABB Cinquain: ABABB[citation needed] Clerihew: AABB Couplet: AA, but usually occurs as AA BB CC DD ... Décima: ABBAACCDDC...

Chippendale chair, Chippendale furniture – Thomas Chippendale Clerihew – Edmund Clerihew Bentley Coade stone – Eleanor Coade Codd-neck bottle – Hiram Codd...

thriller. Chesterton prefixed the novel with a poem written to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, revisiting the pair's early history and the challenges presented...

schooldays was Edmund Clerihew Bentley, inventor of the clerihew, a whimsical four-line biographical poem. Chesterton himself wrote clerihews and illustrated...

William Clerihew (apparently named in tribute to Edmund Clerihew Bentley): the short story "Tokay of the Comet Year" (1930) and the novel Mr. Clerihew, Wine...

Graffiti" as one of the celebrities, literary and otherwise, captured in a clerihew: Adalbert Stifter / Was no weight-lifter: / He would hire old lags / To...

Suns), was released in 1990. Dark Sun (1995) by Richard Rhodes features a clerihew about Fuchs: Fuchs Looks Like an ascetic Theoretic In 2022, Fuchs was the...

28 – Thomas de Hartmann, Russian composer (b. 1885) March 30 – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English writer (b. 1875) March 31 – Ralph DePalma, Italian-born...

offered Welles the part of the victim in Trent's Last Case, based on Edmund Clerihew Bentley's novel. In 1953, the BBC hired Welles to read an hour of selections...

description of the period in his Autobiography and his "Dedication to Edmund Clerihew Bentley" in The Man Who Was Thursday. Peter Faulkner (1995), "Introduction"...

When this appeared in The Daily Telegraph a reader wrote in recalling a clerihew in circulation during Dawson's life:[citation needed] Lord Dawson of Penn...

McDonald, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1899) 1956 – Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English author and poet (b. 1875) 1959 – Daniil Andreyev, Russian...

(see that article for an extensive list of subgenres and types) Aubade – Clerihew – Epic – Grook – form of short aphoristic poem invented by the Danish poet...

produced by the Truro-based production company O-region. Edmund Clerihew Bentley's first clerihew, published in 1905, was written about Sir Humphry Davy: Sir...

very greatly What you say, or what you do. I'm Mackail – and who are you? Clerihew The Balliol College Annual Record, 2002, p. 30. Amis, Kingsley, ed. (1978)...

Canada Max Beerbohm, author and caricaturist (1890) Edmund Clerihew Bentley, inventor of the Clerihew (1894) F. H. Bradley, philosopher (fellow from 1870) Edward...

5 extra couplets just after each tercet. Cinquain: rhyme scheme ABABB. Clerihew: rhyme scheme AABB. Enclosed rhyme (aka enclosing rhyme): ABBA. Ghazal:...

 270. ISBN 978-0-19-817214-7. Bentley, E. Clerihew (1982). "The History of the Clerihew". The First Clerihews. Oxford University Press. p. xv. ISBN 0-19-212980-5...

George Clerihew, MD Inspector-General of Hospitals, on 23 April 1874 at St Barnabas, Kensington. The couple quickly had two children, Edmund Clerihew Bentley...