Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

-Honorius of Autun
c.1130  Gemma  Animae, prologue. English poet  and journalist.  His collection Odes and Addresses (1825) was followed by several volumes of humorous verse and political poems such as 'The Song of the Shirt' (1843).