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	Doggerel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Doggerel describes verse considered of little literary value.
		Almost by definition examples of doggerel are not preserved, since if they have any redeeming value they are not considered doggerel.
		Some poets however make a virtue of writing what appears to be doggerel but is actually clever and entertaining despite its apparent technical faults.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Doggerel (226 words)

	Doggerel (Nightmare servant)
		Doggerel saw the horrors that happened because he couldn't stop Exile from looking through the portal and begged for the return of Nightmare.
		Doggerel asked Exile to take a nap again after the last fear assassins were on their way on Earth.
		Doggerel was happy with his new power and the former fear assassins kneeled before him.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/doggerelnightmare.htm (948 words)

	Q&L/Musings Guest Essay
		Doggerel is poetry that has not escaped the prosaic appeal to cognition: "It has a prose initiative, but tries to make itself associative by an act of will, and it reveals the same difficulties that great poetry has overcome at a subconscious level" (277).
		Doggerel, in Butler's hands, is an astonishingly powerful mode of verse with which to skewer pretension, including snobbish attitudes about verse.
		Since most doggerel has always been just as awful as the definitions and connotations of the term make it out to be, its disappearance from serious literature appears to be a kind of aesthetic achievement.
	home.earthlink.net /~arthur505/cult0297.html (1720 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day
		The adjective or noun doggerel usually refers to trivial or inferior verse, but it could also be comic verse, or verse that is loosely styled and irregular in form.
		Doggerel, as an adjective and noun, is found in Middle English.
		There is an alternative etymology of doggerel, deriving it from Italian doga, meaning ‘stave of a barrel'.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=20011016 (259 words)

	CM Magazine: Doggerel. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Doggerel is a form of comic verse, characterized by a loose structure and rhyme pattern that makes unlikely choices for humorous effect.
		Perhaps the antic nature of the doggerel form is part of the problem here - it's hard to be memorable when stretching for rhymes like "fleas" and "sprees." Some of the vocabulary also seems a bit sophisticated for the target audience.
		Though Doggerel is a worthy effort, it does fall short.
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol4/no20/doggerel.html (265 words)

	Inadvertent Doggerel
		Tony Rogers' Inadvertent Doggerel is a celebration of a particular feature of Victorian literature — accidental trash poetry.
		Ever since that suggestion on the front page of Issue 3, Bikwilians everywhere have rallied to the cause of de-closeting and dusting off the hopeless rhymes of their youth and at last getting them into print, even if (or, more like it, mainly because) they discharge this heavy duty anonymously.
		Spike Milligan, himself no stranger to the writing of doggerel, has over the years been more than happy to recite McGonagall at the drop of a manic hat, and indeed in 1974 co-wrote and starred as the poet in a 95-minute TV special called The Great McGonagall.
	www.bikwil.com /Vintage05/Inadvertent-Doggerel.html (1494 words)

	doggerel - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Holes in the Sky (quotations): Ireland: In doggerel and stout let me honour this…
		In doggerel and stout let me honour this country
		Though the air is so soft that it smudges the words.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /doggerel.html (89 words)

	Rockstars' Ramblings: Doggerel Index & Suggestions
		Since it seems the English language is, as Matt the Pooflinger would say, a target rich environment, the number of Doggerel entries has been increasing a lot lately.
		There were also complaints in the e-mail that I was sounding "patronizing." That might make a good topic, if you explain how it's overused as a defense to factual corrections in order to avoid arguments.
		The person dismissed the validity of the study purely on the grounds that it used synthetic vitamin E, and implied that the results would have been different if natural vitamin E had been used.
	rockstarramblings.blogspot.com /2006/05/doggerel-index-suggestions.html (1271 words)

	Amazon.ca: Doggerel: Poems About Dogs: Books: Carmela Ciuraru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The section on "The Virtues of Particular Breeds," in which homage is paid St. Bernards, Pomeranians, Irish setters, greyhounds, and other breeds, is especially satisfying.
		From Chaucer to Billy Collins and from basset hounds to brindle bull terriers, Doggerel presents a robust brood of the most charming verse tributes ever offered to our beloved canine companions.
		The rich and assorted cadences of some of the most distinguished poets across the centuries ring out from these pages–from Spenser, Shakespeare, and Pope to Merrill, Merwin, and Muldoon–celebrating pooches of every pedigree and persuasion.
	www.amazon.ca /Doggerel-Poems-About-Carmela-Ciuraru/dp/140004037X (376 words)

	Amazon.com: Doggerel: Books: Martha Paulos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Doggerel" is a small collection of 19 poems about dogs.
		The accompanying illustrations are a bit of a disappointment, though - a little too cartoonishly abstract for my taste - and they don't really complement the poetry.
		"Doggerel" is worth the money, as long as you can find a cheap copy.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0877017581?v=glance (498 words)

	Doggerel: Poems about Dogs specs at MSN Shopping
		The rich and assorted cadences of some of the most distinguished poets across the centuries ring out from these pages-from Spenser, Shakespeare, and Pope to Merrill, Merwin,...
		Here is Margaret Cavendish's barking chorus of beagles on the hunt; Elizabeth Bishop's "Pink Dog" alongside Robyn Selman's "My Dog is Named for Elizabeth Bishop"; Charles Baxter's villanelle "Dog Kibble," whose dog-narrator decides that "Life isn't meaningless because there's food"; and the desultory charms of Jane Kenyon's unleashed dog, nuzzling about on a drizzly afternoon.
		From lazy dogs curled up by the fireplace to audacious hounds howling at the moon, from mutts to purebreds, puppies to old dogs, "Doggerel is an irresistible gathering of fast and faithful friends.
	shopping.msn.com /specs/shp/?itemId=1236627 (174 words)

	Asperger syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Individuals with AS may use words idiosyncratically, including new coinages and unusual juxtapositions.
		This can develop into a rare gift for humor (especially puns, wordplay, doggerel and satire).
		A potential source of humor is the eventual realization that their literal interpretations can be used to amuse others.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Asperger%27s_Syndrome (6091 words)

	Doggerel - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Doggerel : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
		Doggerel : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
		Doggerel : Glossary of Literary Terms [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=Doggerel&ls=a (219 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Doggerel' politics is all rhyme and rhythm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		USATODAY.com - 'Doggerel' politics is all rhyme and rhythm
		Each week, he writes short, rhyming doggerel for The Nation, a magazine known more for its left-wing politics than poetry.
		A collection of his verse, to be published by Random House in June, is titled Obliviously On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2004-04-14-trillin_x.htm (396 words)

	Amazon.com: doggerel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		See more references to doggerel in this book.
		Doggerel by Sheila Dalton and Kim Lafave (Hardcover - 1996)
		Doughboy Doggerel: Verse of the American Expeditionary Force, 1918-1919 by Alfred Cornebise (Hardcover - Oct 1985)
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=aps&keywords=doggerel&page=1 (331 words)

	doggerel - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "doggerel" is defined.
		doggerel : Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
		Words similar to doggerel: jingle, doggerel verse, more...
	www.onelook.com /?w=doggerel (219 words)

	MATERIAL FOR DOGGEREL ONLINE-BOOK
		I enjoy composing doggerel … short rhymes or new lyrics to songs, that try to make a point in a light hearted way.
		On a number of occasions, I have been able to compose doggerel that served as a useful part of a talk or a paper.
		My first venture into a public display of my doggerel was for a conference, in the early 80s, on "Methodological innovations in organizational research".
	www.psych.uiuc.edu /~jmcgrath/DOGGERELONLINE.htm (3121 words)

	Benjamin Franklin - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At an early age he had made himself familiar with The Pilgrim's Progress, with Locke, On the Human Understanding, and with a volume of The Spectator.
		Thanks to his father's excellent advice, he gave up writing doggerel verse (much of which had been printed by his brother and sold on the streets) and turned to prose composition.
		His success in reproducing articles he had read in The Spectator led him to write an article for his brother's paper, which he slipped under the door of the printing shop with no name attached, and which was printed and attracted some attention.
	www.1911ency.org /F/FR/FRANKLIN_BENJAMIN.htm (5193 words)

	Notebook
		When it does so, we usually feel that the poet has some distrust in the capacity of readers and critics [p.
		4] to interpret his meaning without assistance, and has therefore dropped into the sub-poetic level of metrical talk ["verse" or "doggerel"] which anybody can learn to produce.
		It is not only tradition that impels a poet to invoke a Muse and protest that his utterance is involuntary.
	www.noteaccess.com /Texts/Frye/Intro.htm (1272 words)

	Doggerel - Bas Bleu
		We've come up with a much more thoughtful and personal solution to the 'but we have to take something' quandary.
		Our Pocket Poets series surely offers the perfect present: Doggerel for the proud parents of a puppy.
		At about 4.5'x 6.5', this beautifully bound little volume-- with its sewn-in ribbon bookmark--is anything but flamboyant, yet it speaks eloquently on a special occasion.
	www.basbleu.com /stores/1/Doggerel_P1408C15.cfm (74 words)

	Another Dose of Doggerel quiz
		General Dog Info : Another Dose of Doggerel
		The American pit bull terrier was originally bred as a guard dog.
		A dog with a wagging tail is always happy.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz/quiz159861d7a78.html (102 words)

	Practical Criticism Midwest Doggerel
		The doggerel came in on little cat feet -
		In honor of Gwen Vickery, two-time defending doggerel champion, whose poems of death played upon our heartstrings like Indiana's bitter January winds through an Aeolian harp
		A doggerel poem clutched tight in her hand,
	www.bsu.edu /english/graduate/pcm/dog.htm (2274 words)

	Simon Huggins - Doggerel Day (Poem) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		But cigar smoke's as nice as the smell of leather.
		It gave me a chance to practice my doggerel
		So cigars and coffee and beer and doggerel
	www.simonhuggins.com /uricon/simon/poetry/doggerel_day.htm (73 words)

	Top20AmericanLiterature.com - American Literature Guide.
		Michael Wigglesworth wrote a best-selling poem, The Day of Doom, describing the time of judgement.
		Nicholas Noyes was also known for his doggerel verse.
		Other early writings described conflicts and interaction with the Indians, as seen in writings by Daniel Gookin, Alexander Whitaker, John Mason, Benjamin Church, and Mary Rowlandson.
	www.top20americanliterature.com (4600 words)

	Doggy Doggerel Ask - Find Articles
		FindArticles > Publications > Free > Home and Garden > Ask > Oct 2004 > Article
		In our April issue we asked you to write your own doggerel poem.
		We don't have room to print all the contest entries, so we've put more on our Web site at www.cricketmag.com (click on "For Kids").
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4128/is_200410/ai_n9462157 (96 words)

	The Yellow Doggerelist
		I know which way this thing will run
		This blog contains my heretofore unpublished polite, nonpolitical, old doggerel, which I hope to teach some new tricks.
		It also serves as my vehicle for exploring WordPress.
	doggerel.wordpress.com (542 words)

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