The Stuffed Owl : An Anthology of Bad Verse

The editors of this legendary and hilarous anthology write: "It would seem at a hasty glance that to make an anthlogy of Bad verse is on the whole a simple matter... On the contrary... Bad Verse has its canons,like Good verse. There is bad Bad Verse. It has been the constant preoccupation of the compilers to include in this book chiefly goog Bad Verse". Here indeed one finds the best of the worst of the greatest poets of the English language, masterpieces of the maladroit by Dryden, Wordsworth, and Keats, among many others, together with an index...