Word: dungheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-quarters) most royal rhymesters have risen to the occasion. Outstanding exception was Wordsworth, who never produced a line to order because the spirit never moved him at the right moment. One of the conscientious was Lord Tennyson who, according to Carlyle, sat "on a dungheap amid innumerable dead dogs" (i.e., buried himself in Homer and Virgil) during the early years of his laureateship, but later rallied sufficiently to produce such gems as The Charge of the Light Brigade...