Modern

Anthony C. Deane

1870–1946


Anthony C. Deane (1870–1946) was an English clergyman and writer of light verse, best known for his parodies, gathered in New Rhymes for Old (1901).

His two pieces here, a sea-ballad burlesque and a rustic song, come from Untermeyer's Modern British Poetry (1920).

  1. The Ballad of the Billycock
  2. A Rustic Song

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