“Dante Alighieri seldom troubled a dairy. He wrote the 'Inferno' on a bottle of pernod.”

Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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About Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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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...

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