Creosotian Poetry

Creosotian Poetry is a from of Nonsense Verse pioneered by poet and playwright F.D Creosote in the late 18th century. It is famous for its subversion of literary conventions and logical reasoning. Despite being largely ignored at the time, it gained a cult following in the 19th century among the British middle class, who found the works to be greatly humorous. This ultimately inspired a number of imitators through the Victorian era, long after Creosote's death in 1848 while attempting to hold back the Public Health Act of that same year. Due to the amount of poetry subsequently written in Creosote's style and using his unique lexicon, Creosotian Poetry has become a sub-genre in its own right.