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Thread #116075   Message #2490569
Posted By: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle
11-Nov-08 - 05:19 AM
Thread Name: Left wing political parodies
Subject: RE: Left wing political parodies
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.