Editing Clerihew (section)

==Examples==
Bentley's first clerihew, published in 1905, was written about Sir [[Humphry Davy]]:<ref name=First/>
{{poemquote|Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered [[sodium]].}}

The original poem had the second line "Was not fond of gravy";<ref name=First/> but the published version has "Abominated gravy".

Other clerihews by Bentley include:<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Freeman|editor-first=Morton S. |year=1997|title=A New Dictionary of Eponyms|url=https://archive.org/details/newdictionaryepo00free|url-access=limited|page=[https://archive.org/details/newdictionaryepo00free/page/n62 50]|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-509354-2}}</ref><ref>''Biography for Beginners''. {{cite book|editor-last=Swainson|editor-first=Bill |year=2000|title=Encarta Book of Quotations|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encartabookofquo00swai/page/642 642–43]|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=0-312-23000-1|url=https://archive.org/details/encartabookofquo00swai/page/642}}</ref>

{{poemquote|[[George III of the United Kingdom|George the Third]]
Ought never to have occurred.
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a blunder.}}
and
{{poemquote|[[John Stuart Mill]],
By a mighty effort of will,
Overcame his natural [[wiktionary:bonhomie|bonhomie]] 
And wrote ''[[Principles of Political Economy]]''.}}

W. H. Auden's ''[[Academic Graffiti]]'' (1971) includes:
{{poemquote|Sir [[Henry Rider Haggard]]
Was completely staggered
When his bride-to-be
Announced, "I am [[She (novel)|She]]!"}}

Satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]'' noted Auden's work and responded:
{{poemquote|W. H. Auden
Suffers from acute boredom
But for his readers he's got some merry news
He's written a collection of rather bad clerihews.}}
A second stanza aimed a jibe at Auden's publisher, [[Faber and Faber]].

[[Alan Turing]], one of the founders of computing, was the subject of a clerihew written by the pupils of his ''alma mater'', [[Sherborne School]] in England:<ref>{{cite book|last=Hodges|first=Andrew|author-link=Andrew Hodges|year=1983|title=Alan Turing: The Enigma|title-link=Alan Turing: The Enigma|page=[https://archive.org/details/alanturing00andr/page/94 94]|publisher=Touchstone|isbn=0-671-52809-2}}</ref>
{{poemquote|Turing
Must have been alluring
To get made a don
So early on.}}

A clerihew appreciated by chemists is cited in ''Dark Sun'' by [[Richard Rhodes]], and regards the inventor of the thermos bottle (or [[Dewar flask]]): 
{{poemquote|[[Sir James Dewar]]
Is a better man than you are
None of you asses
Can liquefy gases.}}
The version in ''Biography for Beginners'' says "condense" rather than "liquefy".

''Dark Sun'' also features a clerihew about the German-British physicist and [[Soviet]] nuclear spy [[Klaus Fuchs]]:<ref name="Rhodes 1995">{{Cite Q | Q105755363 | last1 = Rhodes | first1 = Richard | author-link1 = Richard Rhodes | df = dmy-all | via = [[Internet Archive]] }}</ref>{{rp|pages=[https://archive.org/details/darksunmakinghyd00rhod/page/n52 57], 488}}
{{poemquote|Fuchs
Looks 
Like an ascetic
Theoretic}}

In 1983, ''[[Games (magazine)|Games]]'' magazine ran a contest titled "Do You Clerihew?" The winning entry was:
{{poemquote|Did [[Descartes]]
Depart
With the thought
"[[Cogito ergo sum|Therefore I'm not]]"?}}