Edward Lear's the Scroobious Pip
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780064431323 (0064431320)
Publish date: February 1st 1987
Publisher: Trophy Press
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
A funny nonsense poem (I would expect no less from Lear). Lear died before he finished it, so Ogden Nash filled in the blanks. It's also from the 1960s, and Burkert's introduction laments that the Blue Whale might soon be extinct. It's still an endangered species, but it's not extinct yet.
I wouldn't say I'm a huge fan of poetry in general, but I love me some light verse. Lear is a master.