Geometry.Net - the online learning center
Home  - Celebrities - Bently Edmund Clerihew
e99.com Bookstore
  
Images 
Newsgroups
Page 1     1-20 of 78    1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | Next 20
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z  

         Bently Edmund Clerihew:     more detail
  1. BIOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS: BEING A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES FOR THE USE OF THE UPPER FORMS. With 40 diagrams by G. K . Chesterton by Edmund Clerihew. Bently, 1925
  2. No-nonse-nse: Limericks (invented in Ireland c. 1765), meta-fours (invented during the non-summer of 1985 in Lower Stodgedale) and Clerihews (invented in 1890 by Edmund Clerihew Bently) by Jonathan Williams, 1993

1. Mystery Clerihews
edmund clerihew bently Created Philip Trent. He Also defined the norm The term clerihew comes from edmund clerihew Bentley, who wrote the first known
http://www.smart.net/~tak/clerihew.html
W
elcome to the M ystery C lerihew S ite Edmund Clerihew Bently
Created Philip Trent. He
Also defined the norm
For his eponymous poetic form.
What is a clerihew? Father Brown
Gained wide renown.
Not for prayerbooks or hyminals,
But for collaring criminals.
The clerihew is a four-line poem with a rhyming scheme of AABB. The first line traditionally is, or ends in, a person's name; the meter is often mangled, if not ignored altogether; and the overall intent of the poem stresses entertainment over instruction, humor over fact. The term "clerihew" comes from Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who wrote the first known clerihew as a schoolboy. He went on to produce, under the name E. Clerihew B.A. (and with a little help from schoolmate G. K. Chesterton) a collection of clerihews called Biography for Beginners (1905). Bentley is also known for his groundbreaking mystery novel, Trent's Last Case (1911), which helped make plot and character as important as the puzzle in English detective fiction. What is a mystery clerihew? Agatha Christie
Wrote plot lines so twisty

2. Clerihew
This structure takes it’s formation from edmund clerihew bently who put these rules together in a simple four line construction of poetry .
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~poems/ps/html/clerihew_.html
showme='y'; st='img'; This structure takes it’s formation from Edmund Clerihew Bently who put these rules together in a simple four line construction of poetry .
A witty or humorous content with the theme on a biographical subject. A Clerihew poem is a four-line humorous rhyming poem.
The following rules must apply: Line 1 Famous person or place
Lines 2,3,4 Tell about that person or place
Lines 1,2 Rhyme together
Lines 3,4 Rhyme together The People of Spain Think Cervantes The people of Spain think Cervantes Equal to half-a-dozen Dantes; An opinion resented most bitterly By the people of Italy. E. Clerihew Bentley

3. Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
E. C. Bentley (July 10, 1875 – March 30, 1956), was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Clerihew_Bentley
Edmund Clerihew Bentley
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation search E. C. Bentley July 10 March 30 ), was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century, and the inventor of the clerihew , an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. Born in London , and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford , Bentley worked as a journalist on several newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph . His first published collection of poetry, titled Biography for Beginners (1905), popularized the clerihew form; it was followed by two other collections, in 1929 and 1939. His detective novel, Trent's Last Case (1913), was much praised, numbering Dorothy L. Sayers among its admirers, and with its labyrinthine and mystifying plotting can be seen as the first truly modern mystery. The success of the work inspired him, after 23 years, to write a sequel, Trent's Own Case (1936). There was also a book of Trent short stories, Trent Intervenes . Several of his books were reprinted in the early 2000s by House of Stratus From 1936 until 1949 Bentley was president of the Detection Club and contributed to both of their radio serials broadcast in 1930 and 1931 and published in 1983 as The Scoop and Behind The Screen . He died at the age of 80 in 1956. His son Nicolas Bentley was a famous illustrator.

4. Poets' Corner - Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Selected Works
Selected Works of English Journalist edmund clerihew Bentley.
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/bentley1.html
P.C. Home Page Recent Additions
Poets: A B C D E F G H ... Y Z
    Clerihews from Biography for Beginners
      The art of Biography
      Is different from Geography.
      Geography is about maps,
      But Biography is about chaps.
      Sir Christopher Wren
      Said, 'I am going to dine with some men.
      If anyone calls
      Say I am designing St. Paul's.'
      Sir Humphrey Davy
      Abominated gravy.
      He lived in the odium
      Of having discovered sodium.
      John Stuart Mill,
      By a mighty effort of will,
      Overcame his natural bonhomie
      And wrote 'Principles of Economy.'
      What I like about Clive
      Is that he is no longer alive.
      There is a great deal to be said
      For being dead.
      Edward the Confessor
      Slept under the dresser.
      When that began to pall,
      He slept in the hall.
      Swore not at all.
      Mr Chapman's yea was yea,
      And Mr Hall's nay was nay.
      Edmund Clerihew Bentley
    Poets' Corner H O M E E-mail

5. Clerihews - Rhyming Poems | Thinks.com
edmund clerihew Bentley (18751956) is remembered mainly for his classic detective story Trent s Last Case and for the humorous verse form that was named
http://thinks.com/words/clerihew.htm

Home
Words and Wordplay
Clerihews - Rhyming Poems
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) is remembered mainly for his classic detective story Trent's Last Case and for the humorous verse form that was named after him - the clerihew. It was at the age of sixteen, while he was at St. Paul's School in London, that Bentley first started writing clerihews, as a diversion from school work. G. K. Chesterton, Bentley's life-long friend, was at St. Paul's at the same time, and he too wrote clerihews. Here is one of Bentley's original clerihews from this period: Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium. Bentley's first collection of verse in this vein was published in 1905 as Biography For Beginners . Further collections appeared in 1929 and in 1939. It was soon after publication of the first volume that the name CLERIHEW became applied to this particular form of light verse. What exactly is a clerihew? Frances Stillman in The Poet's Manual and Rhyming Dictionary defines it as 'a humorous pseudo-biographical quatrain, rhymed as two couplets, with line of uneven length more or less in the rhythm of prose'. Add to this, that the name of the subject usually ends the first or, less often, the second line, and that the humour of the clerihew is whimsical rather than satiric, and there you have a complete definition. Here is a brief selection of my favourite Bentley clerihews:

6. [minstrels] Clerihews -- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
It was a weakness of Voltaire s To forget to say his prayers, And one which to his shame He never overcame. edmund clerihew Bentley
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/207.html
[207] Clerihews
Title : Clerihews Poet : Edmund Clerihew Bentley Date : 15 Sep 1999 The art of Biography Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq Clerihews Edmund Clerihew Bentley http://thinks.com/words/clerihew.htm martindemello@ Demver Colorado From: ianflanagan@

7. Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes
1 quotes and quotations by edmund clerihew Bentley.
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/edmund_clerihew_bentley.html

Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's EASY!

Home
Quote Topics Quote Keywords ... Author Nationalities
Authors: A B C D ... Z
Web brainyquote.com Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes
Type:
Journalist Quotes

Category:
English Journalist Quotes

Date of Birth:
July 10
Date of Death: March 30 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Edmund Clerihew Bentley Related Authors: Cyril Connolly Christiane Amanpour Polly Toynbee Henry Mayhew ... Bernard Levin The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. Edmund Clerihew Bentley Quotes RSS Feeds About Us Inquire Privacy Terms

8. Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Selected Works
DayPoems A SevenCentury Poetry Slam * edmund clerihew Bentley - Selected Works lines of verse * www.daypoems.net * Timothy Bovee, editor
http://www.daypoems.net/nodes/796.html
DayPoems: A Seven-Century Poetry Slam * Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Selected Works lines of verse * www.daypoems.net * Timothy Bovee , editor
Poetry indexes by poet by poem poetry places * Webmasters: Feel free to link directly to individual poems.
DayPoems,
A Seven-Century Poetry Slam
Timothy Bovee
, editor

www.daypoems.net

Click on the bonsai for the next poem.
DayPoems Feedback
Click to submit poems to DayPoems, comment on DayPoems or a poem within, comment on other poetry sites, update links, or simply get in touch. DayPoems Feedback DayPoems Front Poetry Whirl
Google

Latest Poetry News
Indexes
Poems
Poets Editor's poems Poetry Places Poetry Places Yishowah, Asiron Astarius - Gothinia Chronicle Eugenio Montale Collected Poems Beautiful Poetry Pages West, Terence (Red) - When Minds Wander ... RhymePhile's Romper Room Nodes powered by Open Directory Project at dmoz.org Project Gutenberg , a huge collection of books as text, produced as a volunteer enterprise starting in 1990. This is the source of the first poetry placed on DayPoems. Tina Blue's Beginner's Guide to Prosody , exactly what the title says, and well worth reading.

9. Deccan Herald - Biographies That Rhyme!
If the answer is the deviser of a new literary form, then edmund clerihew Bentley has served mankind more enduringly than the inventor of the motor car.
http://www.deccanherald.com/Content/Jul62007/sesame2007070511152.asp
Friday, July 6, 2007 Site Web Home About Us Subscribe Contact Us ... Career Avenues News National State District City ... Sports Comments Edit Page Panorama Net Mail Your Take Infoline In City Today HelpLine Daily Almanac Festivals of India Weather Leisure Crossword Horoscope Year 2007 Weekly Daily Astrospeak Calendar 2007 Pearls of Wisdom "The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it." - Karl Marx Supplements Metro Life - Mon DH Avenues Cyber Space Metro Life - Thurs ... Sunday Herald Reviews Book Reviews Movie Reviews Art Reviews Columns Kuldip Nayar Khushwant Singh N J Nanporia Tavleen Singh ... Shreekumar Varma Movie Guide Ad Links Deccan
International School
Real Estate Properties in Bangalore Deccan Herald ...
in Print Format
Others About Us Subscription Send your Suggestions / Queries about the Website to the
Webmaster
To send letters to Editor :
Letters to Editor
You are welcome to post your letters/responses to NETMAIL here For enquiries on advertisements :
Contact Us
Deccan Herald Open Sesame Detailed Story Biographies that rhyme!

10. The Man Who Was Thursday/To Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Wikisource
The Man Who Was Thursday/To edmund clerihew Bentley edit To edmund clerihew Bentley. A cloud was on the mind of men, and wailing went the weather,
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday/To_Edmund_Clerihew_Bentle
The Man Who Was Thursday/To Edmund Clerihew Bentley
From Wikisource
The Man Who Was Thursday Jump to: navigation search Table of Contents The Man Who Was Thursday Dedication
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton Chapter I
edit To Edmund Clerihew Bentley
A cloud was on the mind of men, and wailing went the weather,
Yea, a sick cloud upon the soul when we were boys together.
Science announced nonentity and art admired decay;
The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay;
Round us in antic order their crippled vices came
Lust that had lost its laughter, fear that had lost its shame.
Like the white lock of Whistler, that lit our aimless gloom,
Men showed their own white feather as proudly as a plume.
Life was a fly that faded, and death a drone that stung;
The world was very old indeed when you and I were young. They twisted even decent sin to shapes not to be named: Men were ashamed of honour; but we were not ashamed. Weak if we were and foolish, not thus we failed, not thus; When that black Baal blocked the heavens he had no hymns from us Children we were our forts of sand were even as weak as eve

11. Edmund Clerihew Bentley@Everything2.com
This career may be summed up in a clerihew of my own making. cough cough. edmund clerihew Bentley parodied his subjects gently in a form he created
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=655040

12. Trent's Last Case / Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956
Title Trent s Last Case Title The Woman in Black Author E.C. (edmund clerihew) Bentley Published in UK as Trent s Last Case; in USA as The Woman in
http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/etext01/trent10.htm
Trent's Last Case / Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956
Author Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956 Title Trent's Last Case Date Contributor(s) Du Mont, J. [Translator] Size Identifier Language en Publisher Project Gutenberg Rights GNU General Public License Tag(s) manderson trent man marlowe ... translator Versions original local mirror plain HTML (this file)
concordance (most frequent 100 words, etc.)
... Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts Share addthis_url = location.href; addthis_title = document.title; addthis_pub = 'ericleasemorgan';
Colophon
This file was acquired from Project Gutenberg, and it is in the public domain. It is re-distributed here as a part of the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts (http://infomotions.com/alex/) by Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.) for the purpose of freely sharing, distributing, and making available works of great literature. Its Infomotions unique identifier is etext2568, and it should be available from the following URL: http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/etext01/trent10.htm
Infomotions Man says, "Give back to the 'Net."

13. To Edmund Clerihew Bentley « St. Louis Chesterton Society
Scott received a query about some of the allusions in the poem “To edmund clerihew Bentley”, which appears on the dedication page of The Man Who Was
http://chestertonstl.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/comments-on-to-edmund-clerihew-ben
@import url( http://s.wordpress.com/wp-content/themes/pub/quentin/style.css?m=1192568657 );
St. Louis Chesterton Society
If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
To Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Scott received a query about some of the allusions in the poem “ To Edmund Clerihew Bentley ”, which appears on the dedication page of The Man Who Was Thursday and he passed it along to me. Edmund Clerihew Bentley The first thing I should note is that this is the 100 th anniversary of The Man Who Was Thursday , and appropriately enough, the novel was the main subject of the July/August edition of the greatest magazine in the world, Gilbert!  This poem was covered on page 23, with some of the allusions explained. There is also a long article also in this issue about Bentley.  Membership in the American Chesterton Society is highly recommended to all members of The St. Louis Chesterton Society. Gilbert! When reading Chesterton, Google  and Wikipedia are your friends. But it must be noted that neither is entirely adequate, especially when reading rather than writing a thesis. Sometimes you just need an expert, and experts write Gilbert!

14. The Woman In Black By E. C. Bentley - Project Gutenberg
Creator, Bentley, E. C. (edmund clerihew), 18751956. Title, The Woman in Black. Language, English. EText-No. 21854. Release Date, 2007-06-18
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/21854
Online Book Catalog Quick Search Author: Title Word(s): EText-No.: Advanced Search Recent Books Top 100 Offline Catalogs ... Main Page Project Gutenberg needs your donation! More Info Did you know that you can help us produce ebooks by proof-reading just one page a day? Go to: Distributed Proofreaders
The Woman in Black by E. C. Bentley
Help Read online Bibliographic Record Creator Bentley, E. C. (Edmund Clerihew), 1875-1956 Title The Woman in Black Language English EText-No. Release Date Base Directory /files/21854/
Download this ebook for free
Formats Available For Download Format Encoding ¹ Compression Size Download Links Plucker none unknown main site HTML none 410 KB main site mirror sites HTML zip 154 KB main site mirror sites Plain text iso-8859-1 none 395 KB main site mirror sites Plain text iso-8859-1 zip 151 KB main site mirror sites Plain text us-ascii none 395 KB main site mirror sites Plain text us-ascii zip 151 KB main site mirror sites ¹ If you need a special character set, try our online recoding service

15. Famous Pupils - St Paul's School
edmund clerihew Bentley Author and poet Edward Thomas Author and poet Ernest Shepard Illustrator Compton Mackenzie Author and playwright
http://www.stpaulsschool.org.uk/page.aspx?id=8366

16. :: Munseys: Edmund Clerihew Bentley
not available. Tags Trent, Philip (Fictitious character) Fiction. Detective and mystery stories.......clerihew Bentley, edmund
http://www.munseys.com/detail/mode/author/Edmund_Clerihew_Bentley
- Select One - Author Title Tags
$9.99 Ebook DVDs and a Monkey

Olympia Press

Disruptive Publishing

Akashic Books
... Western (123) Sort results by: Select... Author Name Book Title A B C D ... Z [First] [Prev] Page of pages [Next] [Last Page]
Woman in Black, The

Clerihew Bentley, Edmund

Description not available. Tags: Trent, Philip (Fictitious character) Fiction. Detective and mystery stories.
Terms and Conditions

17. E. C. Bentley, Or Edmund Clerihew Bentley (British Author) -- Britannica Online
This type of comic biographical verse form was invented by edmund clerihew Bentley, who introduced it in Biography for Beginners (1905) and continued it in
http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-61178/E-C-Bentley
Already a member? LOGIN Encyclopædia Britannica - the Online Encyclopedia Home Blog Advocacy Board ... Free Trial Britannica Online Content Related to
this Topic Shopping
New! Britannica Book of the Year

The Ultimate Review of 2007.
2007 Britannica Encyclopedia Set (32-Volume Set)

Revised, updated, and still unrivaled.
New! Britannica 2008 Ultimate DVD/CD-ROM

The world's premier software reference source.
E. C. Bentley, or Edmund Clerihew Bentley (British author)
A selection of articles discussing this topic.
Main article: E. C. Bentley
British journalist and man of letters who is remembered as the inventor of the clerihew (q.v.) and for his other light verse and as the author of Trent's Last Case (1913), a classic detective story that remains a best-seller.
invention of clerihew
This type of comic biographical verse form was invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who introduced it in Biography for Beginners (1905) and continued it in More Biography (1929) and Baseless Biography (1939). The humour of the form lies in its purposefully flat-footed inadequacy: in addition to clumsy rhythm and rhyme, the verse's treatment of the subject is either off the... No results were returned.

18. Trent's Last Case The Woman In Black By E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley - Full Te
by E.C. (edmund clerihew) Bentley CHAPTER I Bad News Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know judge wisely?
http://www.fullbooks.com/Trent-s-Last-Case-The-Woman-in-Black1.html
Trent's Last Case The Woman in Black
by
E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
Part 1 out of 4

TRENT'S LAST CASE
by E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley
CHAPTER I: Bad News
Between what matters and what seems to matter, how should the world we know
judge wisely?
When the scheming, indomitable brain of Sigsbee Manderson was scattered by a
shot from an unknown hand, that world lost nothing worth a single tear; it
gained something memorable in a harsh reminder of the vanity of such wealth as this dead man had piled upwithout making one loyal friend to mourn him, without doing an act that could help his memory to the least honour. But when the news of his end came, it seemed to those living in the great vortices of business as if the earth too shuddered under a blow. In all the lurid commercial history of his country there had been no figure that had so imposed itself upon the mind of the trading world. He had a niche apart in its temples. Financial giants, strong to direct and augment the

19. Bentley, Edmund Clerihew - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Bentley, Edmund
Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Bentley, edmund clerihew. Bentley, edmund clerihew. Information about Bentley, edmund clerihew in the Hutchinson
http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='Bentley, Edmund Clerihew' Printer Friendly 762,729,552 visitors served. TheFreeDictionary Google Word / Article Starts with Ends with Text subscription: Dictionary/
thesaurus Medical
dictionary Legal
dictionary Financial
dictionary Acronyms
Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia
encyclopedia Hutchinson
encyclopedia
Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
0.09 sec. write_ads(AdsNum, 0)
English writer. He invented the four-line humorous verse form known as the clerihew , first collected in Biography for Beginners (1905) and then in More Biography (1929). He was also the author of the classic detective story Trent's Last Case (1913), introducing a new naturalistic style that replaced Sherlock Holmesian romanticism. It was followed by Trent's Own Case (1936), in which he collaborated with H Warner Allen, and Trent Intervenes (1938), a volume of short stories. He was born in London and educated at Oxford. After studying law, he wrote for the Daily News and then for the Daily Telegraph hut(3)
write_ads(AdsNum, 0) Page tools Printer friendly
Cite / link
Email Feedback Sign in Email: Password: Register Charity('US') Your Ad Here Mentioned in No references found Hutchinson browser Full browser Bentham, Jeremy

20. ChesterTeens: Poetry Friday?-
To edmund clerihew Bentley. Yesterday was very busy, after our weekly homeschool coop I stayed much later to have a discussion with the other teens of our
http://chesterteens.blogspot.com/2007/02/poetry-friday-to-edmund-clerihew.html
To Edmund Clerihew Bentley skip to main skip to sidebar
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Poetry Friday?- To Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Yesterday was very busy, after our weekly homeschool co-op I stayed much later to have a discussion with the other teens of our group on The Man Who Was Thursday . I am dreadfully sorry, I didn't have time yesterday to finish typing in this poem. This is the poem that dedicates the book to a great friend of Chesterton, Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
A cloud was on the mind of men, and wailing went the weather,
Yea a sick cloud was upon the soul when we were boys together.
Science announced nonentity and art admired decay;
The world was old and ended: but you and I were gay;
Round us in antic order their crippled voices came-
Lust that had lost it's laughter, fear that had lost it's shame.
Like the white lock of Whistler, that lit our aimless gloom,
Men showed their own white feather as proudly as a plume.
Life was a fly that faded, and death a drone that stung;
The world was very old indeed when you and I were young. They twisted even decent sin to shapes not to be named;

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z  

Page 1     1-20 of 78    1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | Next 20

free hit counter