Lyra Frivola - Dodo Press Author:A. D. Godley Alfred Denis Godley (1856-1925) was a classical scholar and author of humorous poems. From 1910 to 1920 he was Public Orator at the University of Oxford, a post that involved composing citations in Latin for the recipients of honorary degrees. One of these was for Thomas Hardy who received an Honorary D. Litt. in 1920, and whose treatment of rur... more »al themes Godley compared to Virgil. He is mainly remembered today for his humorous verse, including macaronic pieces such as The Motor Bus, which playfully mixes Latin declensions with English. His works include: Verses to Order (1892), Aspects of Modern Oxford (1894), Socrates and Athenian Society in His Day (1896), Lyra Frivola (1899), Second Strings (1902), Oxford in the Eighteenth Century (1908), The Casual Ward (1912) and Reliquiae A. D. Godley (1926).« less