tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post7889031183921994125..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Edgar Guest, the People's PoetNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-1354480659388834632021-11-12T18:38:17.495+00:002021-11-12T18:38:17.495+00:00Well, it seems to be the work of the comedian Benn...Well, it seems to be the work of the comedian Benny Hill, but I suspect others parodied it too. Here's a link to Hill's version – <br />https://www.monologues.co.uk/Parodies/It_Couldnt_Be_Done.htmNigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-90001174372902811582021-11-12T07:27:59.839+00:002021-11-12T07:27:59.839+00:00I'm trying to find the poem that ended 'an...I'm trying to find the poem that ended 'and he couldn't do it.' Could you tell me the rest of it and who wrote it?Beryl Kingstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07750167083617870648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-60383366391000699152015-02-21T05:23:15.368+00:002015-02-21T05:23:15.368+00:00Splendid! Righto! Jolly good...and all that jazz...Splendid! Righto! Jolly good...and all that jazz.barbrihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07389564173215857932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-49957428945248502872013-08-20T16:32:43.304+01:002013-08-20T16:32:43.304+01:00Thanks Peter - You'd probably enjoy the Faber ...Thanks Peter - You'd probably enjoy the Faber Popular Reciter, edited by Kingsley Amis, a fine anthology of such things. Gilbert is a brilliant comic poet, yes, and Thomas Hood has his moments...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-2321381218713121292013-08-20T16:17:47.548+01:002013-08-20T16:17:47.548+01:00Wonderful stuff, Nige. Of course, a modern poet w...Wonderful stuff, Nige. Of course, a modern poet would sniff that this is verse, not poetry, before returning to his attic to complete his uncapitalized, unpunctuated, unrhymed and unmetered opus on how his blocked toilet symbolizes man's inhumanity to man.<br /><br />Any others of the genre you can recommend? Kipling, Service and Gilbert's <i>Etiquette</i> and librettos come to mind, but I'd love to be introduced to more. We really do shortchange the Victorians in the clever whimsy department, don't we? My theory is that it's all because they didn't smile in photographs.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15836910211382887430noreply@blogger.com