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  2. Mock-heroic - Wikipedia

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    The most likely genesis for the mock-heroic, as distinct from the picaresque, burlesque, and satirical poem is the comic poem Hudibras (1662–1674), by Samuel Butler. Butler's poem describes a "trew blew" Puritan knight during the Interregnum, in language that imitates Romance and epic poetry. After Butler, there was an explosion of poetry ...

  3. Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Bat - Wikipedia

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    This article related to a poem is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  4. Revolting Rhymes - Wikipedia

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    Revolting Rhymes is a 1982 poetry collection by British author Roald Dahl.Originally published under the title Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes, it is a parody of traditional folk tales in verse, where Dahl gives a re-interpretation of six well-known fairy tales, featuring surprise endings in place of the traditional happily-ever-after finishes.

  5. Cautionary Tales for Children - Wikipedia

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    Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a 1907 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc. It is a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century. [1] The poems are a sardonic critique of Victorian era upper class society. [2]

  6. Parody - Wikipedia

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    A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).

  7. Category:British satirical poems - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. Tools. ... British poems in the genre of satire. Pages in category "British satirical poems"

  8. Allusions to Poe's "The Raven" - Wikipedia

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    Mathematician Mike Keith has also referenced the poem in three examples of constrained writing: "Near a Raven" is a reworking of Poe's poem in which the length of words correspond to the first 740 digits of pi (1995) Cadaeic Cadenza, a longer work under the same constraint, begins with the full text of "Near a Raven" (1996)

  9. British humour - Wikipedia

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    Vic Reeves Big Night Out (1990 and 1991) a parody of the variety shows which dominated the early years of television, but which were, by the early 1990s, falling from grace. Bottom (1991–1995) noted for its chaotic humour and highly violent slapstick. The Young Ones (1982–1984), a British sitcom about four students living together. It ...