doggerel
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Let John Denton’s doggerel stand in for all the great jottings that didn’t make it into “Dear California.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023
“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
“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
Mac’s ability to elevate doggerel to verse—and to a mirror of his protagonist’s essence—is no small thing: it is the work of a real writer expressing depths in a popular form.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019
As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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