English Poets

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    “The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.
    A reeling road, a rolling road, that rambles round the shire.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “All ye poets of the age,
    All ye witlings of the stage,
    Learn your jingles to reform,
    Crop your numbers to conform.
    Let your little verses flow
    Gently, sweetly, row by row;
    Let the verse the subject fit,
    Little subject, little wit.
    Namby-Pamby is your guide,
    Albion’s joy, Hibernia’s pride.”
    —Henry Carey (1693?–1743)