Talk:Edmund Clerihew Bentley
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The article alluded to several sequels to Trent's Last Case. I'm aware of only one, Trent's Own Case. Does anyone have bilbiograhic data here?
Dandrake 09:39, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Did Bentley invent the clerihew?
Consider the following:
First come I: my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college, What I don't know isn't knowledge
This appears to be a clerihew. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations says it appeared in a Balliol masque in the late 1870s. It gives other examples from the same source.
- Clerihews usually have irregular line length and don't scan well. The one you give has equal line lengths (eight syllables per line) and scans in perfect trochaic tetrameter: "first come I, my name is Jowett, there's no knowledge but I know it" et cetera, so it isn't really a clerihew; the fact that it's written in first person is also unusual for a clerihew. However, such things may have been the precursor to the clerihew as we know it today. Thefamouseccles 09:21, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
