Talk:Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Sequels
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

Did Bentley invent the clerihew?
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)

E C Bentley or his father?
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)

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