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American

Guy Wetmore Carryl

1873–1904

Guy Wetmore Carryl (1873–1904) was an American humorist and poet, born in New York City, the son of Charles Edward Carryl, who died young.

He is remembered for Fables for the Frivolous (1898), which retold Aesop and the fairy tales in comic verse.

Poems (5)

  1. How Jack Found that Beans May Go Back on a Chap
  2. The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven
  3. How a Cat Was Annoyed and a Poet Was Booted
  4. When the Great Gray Ships Come In
  5. Red Riding Hood

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