The Faerie Queene (I know, I know), Browning’s The Ring and the Book, Tennyson’s Idylls of the King and In Memoriam, Pope’s anything, especially the four Moral Epistles and The Rape of the Lock, anything by P.G. Wodehouse, and almost anything by S.J Perelman, Peter de Vries, and Stanley Elkin.
This piece was first published in Volume II of The Little Jackie Paper, 2005-2006.