Sonnet Enthusiast Mugs

William Wordsworth.

Thomas Wyatt

Concert Pianist.

'He went in for the Worst Singer and won first prize in the Gurning competition at the same time!'

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

Never write a sonnet on an empty stomach

Shakespeare working on his "author's bio"

Poetry in motion - Runners quoting poems as they jog.

Poetry repairman

Olden Day Battle of the Bands (Bard vs Sonnet).

Tenors

'Just tell him two quarts of milk and a pint of cream, Will- it doesn't have to be a sonnet.'

Poetry Buff.

A singer being criticised

Pirate King

William Shakespeare

The Poet.

Jean Sibelius.

'Major poets' 'Minor poets' 'Free agents'

"Okay, so I got rid of the owl.."

'Uh-oh, here comes the mike again. Cut the barbershop quartet and go back to mournful whistling.'

Well, it's not my fault if nobody bothered to tune the microphone.'

"I can write beautiful poems, but they all rhyme with gin."

4 Rules For 'Serious' Poets

Algernon Swinburne

'Oh, come on, Bill, surely you can do better than 'there was an old lady from Nantucket!''

In the days before Newton discovered gravity...

"Dad, it's only a surveillance camera."

'I'd like to renew my poetic license!'

Cows warming up.

"Tonight I shall be humming Chopin's Sonata..."

Alexander Blok

'All I want to know is--when do I get to use the quadratic formula, political facts of South America, frog anatomy, the ecology of Johnson Creek, and the billions of other things I spent twelve years studying so diligently?'

"...and so I left Wall Street and made a killing in poetry."

'For God's sake, Tom, just let her cry - I can't stand your singing any longer.'