. Insult poetry has a long poetic tradition, for example, this poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Cologne ---------- In Koln, a to...

. And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pasture...

Marke but this flea, and marke in this, How little that which thou deny'st me is; Me it suck'd first, and now sucks thee, And in thi...

. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And sum...