January 2, 1971

E. V. Knox, an editor of Punch magazine, was the brother of Ronald Knox, a major churchman in England. E. V. Knox is more fully named Edmund George Valpy Knox (May 10, 1881 to January 2, 1971); Evoe is how he signed his work and that included humor and poetry. Here is a combination of both.

I have a mind where meadow, grove and stream
And common things like cats and bricks
To me do seem
Much as they might to lunatics.
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This poem is titled: "Spokes Or An Ode On Ebullitions of Eccentricity That Ought to Have Been Overcome in Early Childhood." Our sample specifically spoofs, of course  Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." Most of Knox's work appeared first in Punch, and might then be collected in books..In this case what we quoted appeared in Parodies Regained (1921). You can read the whole poem at Hathitrust.

Other of his titles  include

The brazen lyre, (1911)
Me, or : the strange episode of the reincarnated Greek (uncertain date)
A little loot (1920)
Fiction as she is wrote, (1923)
Poems of impudence, (1927)
Mr. Punch on the links (1929).