Talk:Edmund Clerihew Bentley

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Sequels[edit]

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)

Yes, a bibliography would seem to be an important feature in an article about an author. 67.249.66.237 (talk) 12:20, 1 December 2015 (UTC)Amy[reply]

Did Bentley invent the clerihew?[edit]

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)[reply]

E C Bentley or his father?[edit]

The sentence beginning "Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant .." is totally unclear.

Who was born in London and educated at St Paul's and Merton: Edmund C. Bentley, or his father John E. Bentley? Either way, this is awful writing. --Tdent (talk) 13:21, 14 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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