Poetry Everywhere
Author: first_name: W. S.
last_name: Gilbert
Language: English
Year: 0

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these include H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and one of the most frequently performed works in the history of musical theatre, The Mikado.<br /><br />

Gilbert also wrote the Bab Ballads, an extensive collection of light verse accompanied by his own