stuffed owl
stuffed owl referring to poetry which treats trivial or inconsequential subjects in a grandiose manner. The phrase comes from the title of Wyndham Lewis's The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse (1930), and ultimately alludes to Wordsworth's lines ‘The presence even of a stuffed owl for her Can cheat the time.’
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