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Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956), who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.
E.C. Bentley was a British journalist and man of letters who is remembered as the inventor of the clerihew and for his other light verse and as the author of Trent’s Last Case (1913), a classic detective story that remains a best seller.
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Edmund Clerihew Bentley was an English author best known for inventing a four-line biographical verse form called the Clerihew. This humorous style of poetry, named after Bentley himself, uses the subject's name as the first line and follows an AABB rhyme scheme.
A clerihew ( / ˈklɛrɪhjuː /) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The first line is the name of the poem's subject, usually a famous person, and the remainder puts the subject in an absurd light or reveals something unknown or spurious about the subject.
Edmund Clerihew Bentley. (1875—1956) writer. Quick Reference. (1875–1956), was called to the bar, but made his career as a journalist on the Daily News and Daily Telegraph.
Nov 13, 2020 · A well-known illustrator and author of several thrillers, Edmund Clerihew Bentley is best known as the inventor of the clerihew, a form of humorous verse and as the author of the influential detective novel, Trent’s Last Case (1913).
Often publishing under the name E. C. Bentley, he contributed landmark works to humorous poetry by his invention of the whimsical form called the clerihew, and to classic detective fiction with his watershed novel Trent's Last Case.
