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Charles Stuart Calverley

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I know you've been married to the same woman for 69 years. That is marvellous. It must be very inexpensive.


— Charles Stuart Calverley


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I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.


— Charles Stuart Calverley


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Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.


— Charles Stuart Calverley


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A year later to avoid the consequences of a college escapade (he had been expelled from Oxford) he too changed his name to Calverley and moved to Christ's College Cambridge. Russell said of him:

He was a true poet; he was one of the most graceful scholars that Cambridge ever produced; and all his exuberant fun was based on a broad and strong foundation of Greek Latin and English literature. Calverley at Poets' Corner.

Charles Stuart Calverley (pron. He was the literary father of what has been called "the university school of humour". : /ˈkɑːvərlɪ/; December 22 1831 – February 17 1884) was an English poet and wit.

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