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	[minstrels] Clerihews -- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
		It was soon after publication of the first volume that the name 'clerihew' became applied to this particular form of light verse.
		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.
		I love clerihews - the form is addictive and much copied, but Bentley and Chesterton remain the masters.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/207.html (588 words)

	Clerihew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Clerihew (or clerihew) is a very specific kind of humorous verse, typically with the following properties:
		The form was invented by and is named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
		Clerihews are occasionally not about a particular person, as in this example by Bentley:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clerihew (281 words)

	Edmund Clerihew Bentley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		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, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edmund_Clerihew_Bentley (224 words)

	Adding a Little Mystery to the Clerihew
		Clerihews, though, may be of more than historical interest to the modern writer of short mystery fiction.
		I would go so far as to say that a clerihew that is not pointless is going to be forced, and any editor who expects otherwise is bound to be disappointed in the submissions that cross his desk.
		Keep in mind, also, that the high-water mark of clerihews remains the first ever written, on Sir Hamilton Davy, and you should have the confidence to try your hand at a form whose best examples are, for whatever reason, not much better than its average examples.
	www.thewindjammer.com /smfs/newsletter/html/clerihew.html (728 words)

	Clerihews
		It was 1905, in Biography for Beginners, by “E. Clerihew”, when he introduced the form to the world, although tradition has it that he devised his first effort long before that, during a boring chemistry lesson at St. Paul’s School in London.
		The name “clerihew” was applied to his verse form by an unknown reader about 1906.
		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 mark or totally beside the point, as though it were the work of a reluctant schoolchild.
	www.bikwil.com /Vintage44/Background-to-Clerihew.html (304 words)

	Phony Pearls in Clerihew Verse - Mythology
		The clerihew is named for its inventor, James Clerihew Bentley (1875- 1956), a British journalist.
		Connoisseurs of the clerihew will miss the master's journalistic flavor in these all-too jingly efforts, but any bunch of clerihews on the web is likely to encourage someone (who never would have thought of it) to write a clerihew.
		Clerihew," numerous verses from Light Magazine, quotations from Academic Graffiti by W. Auden, and Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews by Henry Taylor.
	benandverse.com /writings/ppcv-myth.htm (248 words)

	Avant News
		Clerihew dramatically recounted, a disaster began to unfold before her very eyes.
		Clerihew explained that President Bush began painting a series of alternating red and white stripes from the door inward.
		Clerihew and other members of the household domestic staff, President Bush remained in the corner of the room, mere inches from his cheerleading trophy but bereft of any other means of support, waiting for the paint, a particularly slow-drying variety, to dry.
	www.avantnews.com /modules/news/print.php?storyid=208 (1008 words)

	Clerihew
		A few months ago I was introduced to the form of poetry with the name of Clerihew.
		Clerihew is a light verse quatrain rhyming aa bb usually dealing with a person named in the initial rhyme.
		Of course, it doesn't necessarily have to be a celebrity it could be your child,husband,boyfriend,etc. Just remember the first line must end with the person's name and the second line rhyme with the first line. Lines three and four must also be rhyming lines.
	poetrypotpourri.homestead.com /clerihews.html (201 words)

	[minstrels] The People of Spain Think Cervantes -- E. Clerihew Bentley
		Bentley's eponymous invention, the clerihew, is one of those simple ideas that seem so natural in retrospect.
		Humorous biographies are nothing new, of course, but the formal structure of the clerihew lends them a certain extra something, in much the same way that the structure of a limerick predisposes the reader to expect humour, and thereby enhances that humour.
		And then there are the rhymes - Nash may have lent a certain respectability to the bad rhyme, but the clerihew practically institutionalises it, to the extent that I feel slightly cheated if there isn't at least a hint of contrivedness.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1446.html (260 words)

	Guide to Verse Forms - Fun forms
		Clerihew * Limerick * Rondelet * Ruthless Rhyme
		The clerihew consists of two rhyming couplets which purport to sum up the life and works of a famous person.
		The clerihew was invented by E C Bentley (1875-1956), an English journalist and novelist whose initials stood for "Edmund Clerihew".
	www.noggs.dsl.pipex.com /vf/fun.htm (499 words)

	clerihews
		A clerihew is a humorous pseudo-biographical quatrain, rhymed as two couplets.
		Bentley, who is mainly remembered for his classic detective story Trent's Last Case, first started writing clerihews with his friend, G.K. Chesterton, as a diversion from school work.
		The first collection of clerihews was published in 1905, and soon the verse form was named after the author's name.
	www.erp.oissel.onac.org /anglais/clerihew.htm (112 words)

	Mystery Clerihews
		The clerihew is a four-line poem with a rhyming scheme of AABB.
		The term "clerihew" comes from Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who wrote the first known clerihew as a schoolboy.
		A mystery clerihew is a clerihew whose subject is a writer of or character from mystery fiction.
	www.smart.net /~tak/clerihew.html (355 words)

	Limited Edition Online - The Magazine for Oxfordshire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The clerihew was named after Bentley himself — as his full name was Edmund Clerihew Bentley.
		Clerihew was his mother’s original surname, which George Black’s The Surnames of Scotland describes as “an Aberdeenshire surname”, noting that “William Clerihew of Kegge was convicted of profanation of the Lord’s day, etc., in 1644”.
		The Spectator asked readers to supply clerihews in which the rhymes were ‘eye-rhymes’.
	www.thisislimitededition.co.uk /printversion.asp?ID=386 (404 words)

	NTeQ--Lesson Plan Builder: ViewLesson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		You will be creative and compose a Clerihew, using your choice of Greek god or goddess, accurately depicting research through seach engines.
		After you are finished, you may mount your Clerihew on a piece of colored construction paper.
		Students will share their Clerihew with the class before they are mounted on the wall.
	www.nteq.com /LessonPlanner/view_lesson.asp?lesnumber=3013 (444 words)

	clerihew -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		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).
		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.
		E-text of this novel by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, a British journalist.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9024346 (247 words)

	Featured Form: The Clerihew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Clerihew has something that many forms of poetry do not, a specific individual whom we may blame.
		Edmund Clerihew Bentley developed the form and gave it his middle name.
		Not all clerihews adhere strictly to the rule about the name and titles being the whole first line.
	www.poetsforthewar.org /200404/clerihew.shtml (304 words)

	Ryze business networking
		Write a clerihew (scroll down for an explanation), with yourself as the subject.
		Your feedback MUST be in the form of a clerihew.
		The form was invented by and is named for Edmund Clerihew Bentley (see this and this).
	www.ryze.com /postdisplay.php?confid=1199&messageid=900591 (524 words)

	Featured Form: The Clerihew (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Clerihew has something that many forms of poetry do not, a specific individual whom we may blame.
		Not all clerihews adhere strictly to the rule about the name and titles being the whole first line.
		Of course, adhering to the rule of the name as the first line helps to quell any doubt of whom the clerihew is about.
	www.poetryrenewal.com /200404/clerihew.shtml (304 words)

	Reviews of Clerihew Books--William H. Wiatt
		William H. Wiatt is a writer, collector, and connoiseur of clerihews.
		Auden identifies that audience in calling his clerihews “academic graffiti.” They tend, in short, to be “in jokes”; if you don’t know who the subject (e.g., John Stuart Mill) is, you may well miss the point.
		Whatever else may be said for it, that’s not a clerihew, despite the form; and the John/Son rhyme does not pass muster.
	www.ddaze.com /04LVResource/vWiatt.htm (940 words)

	Edward Clerihew Bentley
		Bentley was a journalist and novelist, remembered as the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of comic biographical verse.
		Bentley invented the Clerihew, aged 16, as a diversion from his schoolwork.
		Clerihews Complete, published in 1951, all of Bentley's clerihews are collected.
	www.wardsbookofdays.com /10july.htm (224 words)

	The WELL: Clerihew Who?
		In which we make up clerihews to amuse ourselves (and possibly others.) Continued from the Limerick Topic, where they were getting...ummm...
		CLERIHEW: A humorous,unmetrical, biographical verse of four short lines -- two closed couplets -- with the first rhyme a play on the name of the subject.
		An Example: It was a weakness of Voltaire's To forget to say his prayers, And one which to his shame He never overcame.
	www.well.com /conf/pre.vue/topics/97/Clerihew-Who-page01.html (663 words)

	eclectic content : dictionary : adventure (v.)
		Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) was an English writer whose book Biography for Beginners was published in 1906 under the name E. Clerihew.
		He didn't call them clerihews himself, but his readers began to do so after the book appeared.
		How soon after, we can't be sure, because so far we've unearthed nothing earlier than a 1928 description of clerihews as "nice slack metres and sly points." In any case, people have been having fun writing their own clerihews ever since Bentley shared his.
	lyberty.com /dict/clerihew.htm (165 words)

	World Wide Words: Clerihew
		The form is slight but not slighting, conventionally consisting of a quatrain with the name of the biographee as the first line.
		Clerihew was Bentley’s middle name, which was given him (and which he in turn passed to his son Nicholas) to mark his mother’s maiden name, Margaret Richardson Clerihew, Clerihew being an old Scottish surname.
		Someone who creates clerihews is a clerihewer, an appropriate term for a person who hacks such lines out of the living language.
	www.worldwidewords.org /weirdwords/ww-cle1.htm (238 words)

	Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy
		Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) wrote detective fiction, and at the age of 16, I imagine a bit bored in school, developed the verse form named after him - the clerihew.
		Bentley collected Clerihews into his 1905 Biography For Beginners, (illustrated by Chesterton) in which he explained the concept of the book with a Clerihew variant:
		Following this publication, CLERIHEW became a recognized form of verse.
	www.schoenml.org /112fp/clerihew.htm (202 words)

	billingsgazette.com
		In 1901, sitting in a science class at St. Paul's School in England, 16-year-old Edmund Clerihew Bentley was bored.
		In time, the verse form became known as the Clerihew, according to Michael Quinion, whose Web site www.worldwidewords.com is a vast storehouse of fascinating, generally useless oddities.
		Quinion said a Clerihew is "slight but not slighting," normally consisting of four lines, rhymed AABB, with the name of the biographee in the first line, "often written in a flat-footed or mangled way more reminiscent of prose than verse." Bentley wrote this useful poem to further describe the style:
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/07/07/build/local/80-citylights.inc (523 words)

	Poetry for Kids - Articles
		That means when you learn to write a clerihew, you can instantly write funny poems about your parents, your teacher, your favorite movie star, your best friend, your pet, or anyone else you can think of.
		A clerihew will work best, though, if you write it about someone who is well known, or who at least is known to the people who will read it.
		So you see, clerihews are short, easy to write and can be about any person or character, real or not.
	www.poetry4kids.com /modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=8 (557 words)

	Poem Online Poetry Community - 2004: Flash #27 08/01/04 The Clerihew
		A Clerihew is a form of light verse invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley, consisting of two couplets and having the name of a person in the first line.
		Notice that the first line ends with the name of the person the clerihew is about, Mr.
		A clerihew will work best, though, if you write it about someone who is well known, or who at least is known to the people who will read it.
	www.poem.org /poetry/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=flash2;action=display;num=1091408038 (425 words)

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