“Sir Humphry Davy / Abominated gravy. / He lived in the odium / Of having discovered sodium.”

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...