Clerihew for Critic

JAMES HENRY LEIGH HUNT

Leigh Hunt
Could be blunt,
As when he said the King was fat
And went to prison just for that.

In Prison

A Caricature

Daily Dose

From Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan

JOHN HOWARD

"John Howard, the Quaker, invented solitary, they say.  He must have had terrible little to do.  These religious bastards, they have empty minds on account of not going in for sex, or sport, or drink, or swimming, or reading bad books."

From The foreman engineer