doggerel
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Let John Denton’s doggerel stand in for all the great jottings that didn’t make it into “Dear California.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023
You can’t write doggerel for Burt Bacharach songs.
From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023
Mac’s ability to elevate doggerel to verse—and to a mirror of his protagonist’s essence—is no small thing: it is the work of a real writer expressing depths in a popular form.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 29, 2019
“Monrovia, Indiana” is not precisely about any of those things, but it carries intimations of them, elegiac strains amid the doggerel of daily life.
From New York Times • Oct. 25, 2018
The only thing that seems even a little surprising is a bit of doggerel, a love poem in Prince Dain’s hand, about a woman who remains unidentified, except by her “sunrise hair” and “starlit eyes.”
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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