The Art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about Chaps.
With these rhyming lines, English novelist and humorist Edmund Clerihew
Bentley introduces this book and an unusual form of verse of his own
invention. Bentley's four-line poems, known as clerihews, offer
satirical views of historical figures, from Edward the Confessor and Odo
of Bayeux to Sir Walter Raleigh, Jane Austen, Karl Marx, Theodore
Roosevelt, and many others. The witty verses are accompanied by the
book's outstanding feature: whimsical full-page illustrations by G. K.
Chesterton.