Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes

by Harry Graham

Overview

A series of cheerfully cruel poems by Harry Graham. Here is a favorite called "Aunt Eliza":

IN the drinking-well
(Which the plumber built her)
Aunt Eliza fell,—
We must buy a filter.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940150167223
Publisher:	Shamrock Eden Publishing
Publication date:	12/13/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Graham is best remembered for his series of cheerfully cruel Ruthless Rhymes, first published in 1898 under the pseudonym Col. D. Streamer, a reference to his regiment. These were described by The Times, in an editorial that compared him to Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and W. S. Gilbert, as "that enchanted world where there are no values nor standards of conduct or feeling, and where the plainest sense is the plainest nonsense". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography also compares his verse with that of W. S. Gilbert and suggests that his prose was an early influence on P. G. Wodehouse.