Brief Candles: 101 Clerihews

by Henry S. Taylor

Book Overview

Not since W. H. Auden's Academic Graffiti has a poet of serious substance indulged so thoroughly in clerihews, those miniature (and often outrageously fictional) biographies invented just over 100 years ago by E. C. Bentley (1875--1956). In Brief Candles, Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Taylor takes on with hilarious irreverence people usually taken most seriously -- members of the Supreme Court, poets laureate, literary theorists, Whitewater celebrities,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807125644
• ISBN13: 9780807125649
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.4" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

Above All, Voice

The poet admits "brief." So these candles are. But each extinguished by thumb and index moistened by an expert tongue. How I wish that the average poem in the Atlantic Monthly could offer the wit and verve and originality of the average line in this enjoyable collection.