“At length by certain Proofs 'tis plain that the readers of Macmillan will know all that is to be known about the mistletoe, thanks to your labours, before Christmas.”
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…