doggerel

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For 15 years, he wrote a long-form narrative every three weeks for the New Yorker; he’s also written shorter reported pieces, comic sketches and doggerel for the Nation, Time and elsewhere.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2024

“I found out that I could do it, too. I still tremble at the memory of a certain Linda listening breathlessly to my doggerel on her front steps.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 10, 2023

In a letter to the West Sussex County Times, a critic resorted to doggerel to denounce Knepp’s “ragwort shame, spread like the plague, and who’s to blame?”

From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2020

“All hail, sage lady, whom a grateful isle hath blest,” says a photographer to Elizabeth at the end of Season 1, aptly quoting the patriotic doggerel of Wordsworth’s “Ecclesiastical Sonnets.”

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2019

As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie