Writing light verse and prose humor

by Richard Armour

Book by Armour, Richard Willard

141 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1947

About the author

Richard Armour, a college professor of English who specialized in Chaucer and the English Romantic poets, was best known as a prolific author of light verse and wacky parodies of academic scholarship. He was a professor of English at Scripps College in Claremont from 1945 to 1966.

Armour was raised in Pomona, California, where his father owned a drugstore. He graduated from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, then obtained his master's and Ph.D. in English literature at Harvard. He was a Harvard research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum library in London.

Reviews

[Jason Cady · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so much better than I expected. Yes, it's a little dated, but Armour's poems, which he uses as examples throughout are quite funny, and well crafted.

[Justin Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

Useful and fun to read.