The editors of this legendary and hilarious Anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an Anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a simple matter .
Charles Lee (1870-1956) was born in London to an artistic family who, throughout Lee\'s life, heartily supported him in his evolution as an intellectual, fiction writer, poet, playwright, composer, and pianist.
Mid-career, he also coauthored the story on which Alfred Hitchcock\'s The Man Who Knew Too Much was based.
He wrote several literary biographies, acclaimed for both their spirited subjectivity and their attention to historical detail, taking on subjects ranging from Rabelais and Moli re to Boswell and Habsburg Emperor Charles V.
In 1919, he became a columnist for The London Daily Express under the pseudonym "Beach Comber." These pieces and those that he later wrote for The London Daily Mail and The London News Chronicle capture Lewis\'s legendary wit and savage, though eloquent, impatience with modern trends and are collected in the volumes At the Green Goose (1923), At the Sign of the Blue Moon (1924), At the Blue Moon Again (1925), and On Straw and Other Conceits (1929).
Prior to serving in World War I, he intended to pursue the legal profession; but after, having suffered two bouts of shell shock and one of malaria, he set his sights on journalism.
About the Author: Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis (1894-1969) was born in Wales and educated at Oxford.
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It has been the constant preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefiy good Bad Verse." Here indeed one finds the best of the worst of the greatest poets of the English language, masterpieces of the maladroit by Dryden, Wordsworth, and Keats, among many others, together with an index ("Maiden, feathered, uncontrolled appetites of, 59;.
There is bad Bad Verse and good Bad Verse.
Bad Verse has its canons, like Good Verse. . .
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The editors of this legendary and hilarious Anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an Anthology of Bad Verse is on the whole a simple matter
