Sonnet Lover Pillows

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."

Do you have to play air guitar every time we sing?

What would Charlotte Bronte do, she thought to herself.

Shakespeare loved a grammar joke

'Choose, Fenster

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

"Before the defense rests, my client would like to read you a little sonnet he composed about his love for the jury."

Frontispiece to 'The Pickwick Papers'

Lord Byron

"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!"

Poetry repairman

"It's a novel about interest rates."

Barry Unsworth

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

'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

William Shakespeare

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

Book

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

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

Sylvia Plath

Male On Sunday

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.'

Ernest Hemingway

The Poet.

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