“John Stuart Mill, / By a mighty effort of will, / Overcame his natural bonhomie / And wrote 'Principles of Political Economy.'”

About Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Author • English

Edmund Clerihew Bentley was a noted English novelist, humorist, and journalist, born on July 10, 1875. He is celebrated as the inventor of the clerihew, a whimsical, four-line biographical poem that bears his middle...