doggerel
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For 15 years, he wrote a long-form narrative every three weeks for the New Yorker; he’s also written shorter reported pieces, comic sketches and doggerel for the Nation, Time and elsewhere.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2024
Fenn’s doggerel had seven times seven types of ambiguity, enough to keep an estimated 100,000 fortune hunters poring over it for a decade.
From Washington Post • May 21, 2021
In a letter to the West Sussex County Times, a critic resorted to doggerel to denounce Knepp’s “ragwort shame, spread like the plague, and who’s to blame?”
From The Guardian • Feb. 25, 2020
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
As she passed the mantelpiece, she looked up at the framed doggerel.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
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