Sonnet Lover Mugs

Rupert Brooke.

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

"I don't care if it is itty-bitty. Turn it off!"

Trilby - 'The old studio'.

"I'd like a partridge in a pear tree, 2 turtle doves, 3 French hens, 4 calling birds and 7 swans a swimming."

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

"This place is famous for its short fiction about food."

'Choose, Fenster

Barry Unsworth

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Lord Byron

'Of course my fact-finding tour is legitimate. Can I help if if there are more facts in the Bahamas than Cleveland?'

Poetry repairman

"It's a novel about interest rates."

"My fellow mantises...I can barely believe this, but it has come to my attention that there is a lack of prayer in this church!"

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

Poetry Buff.

"I'm taking you off sleeping pills and putting you on Proust."

Mr. Merdle becomes a borrower

Book

Sylvia Plath

Male On Sunday

'Sorry, Mr. Wimble -- you've had just about enough Kafka for one day.'

The old fashioned, never say die author: 'All right, if they're remaindered, I'll sign the remainders.'

'I really can't think of a thing to preach about this morning, so I'll take questions from the floor.'

William Shakespeare

A new book with a little bit of this and a little bit of that.

"It's a stream of consciousness novel like 'Ulysses' I just sort of sat down and wrote it without even thinking of a plot have you had drink I', going to get a seat where do you come from it's hot in here I like blue do you like blue..."

'Well, one of us in wrong.'

And then a voice came down from the Lord...

The Poet.

'No more Mr. Nice Guy...'

'Good Cholesterol Vs. Bad Cholesterol'