Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith (1771–1845) was an English clergyman, essayist and conversationalist, a founder of the Edinburgh Review in 1802 and later a canon of St Paul's Cathedral. He was famous in his own day as a wit.

Verse was a sideline for him. The pieces here are the few that James Parton included in his anthology of English humorous poetry, among them the comic 'Recipe for Salad'.