“Grove says that he and all Editors are in a hideous state of overworkedness in the last and the next few months.”
About Charles Stuart Calverley
22 December 1831–17 February 1884
Charles Stuart Calverley burst onto the Victorian literary scene like a sudden shaft of sunlight piercing the solemn clouds of high-minded poetry. Born in an age that prized ponderous epics and moralizing odes, he carved out a niche as the undisputed master of light verse, parody, and scholarly wit. His poems danced…