Biography for Beginners

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

 
The Art of Biography
Is different from Geography.
Geography is about Maps,
But Biography is about Chaps.
 

SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN

 
Sir Christopher Wren
Said, "I am going to dine with some men.
"If anybody calls
"Say I am designing St. Paul's."
 

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

 
The people of Spain think Cervantes
Equal to half-a-dozen Dantes:
An opinion resented most bitterly
By the people of Italy.
 

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

 
Mr Bernard Shaw
Was just setting out for the war,
When he heard it was a dangerous trade
And demonstrably underpaid.
 

SIR HUMPHREY DAVY

 
Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered Sodium.