Not quite the same thing, but a callow young fellermelad called Terry Eagleton who used to sing the Healy song also sang (and wrote) this. He is now I believe a professor of English. To the tune Land of Elgar - Pomp and Circumstance I Chaucer was a class traitor Shakespeare hated the mob Donne sold out a bit later Sidney was a snob Bunyan was a defeatist Keats was middle class Byron was an elitist But William Blake was a gas There's a sniff of reaction About Alexander Pope Johnson was a Tory And Walter Scott was a dope Dickens was a reformist Wordsworth he was too Coleridge's faults were enormous Tennyson was true blue William Yeats was a fascist So were Elliot and Pound Lawrence was a sexist Virginia Woolf was unsound There are only three names to Be plucked from this dismal set Milton Blake and Shelley Will smash the ruling class yet.
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