35 Two terrible poets. Mrs Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793–1835) published her first volume of Poems when she was 15. Amanda McKittrick Ros (1860–1939), known as ‘the World’s Worst Writer’, was the author of Irene Iddesleigh (1897) and Poems of Puncture (1915). It became a customary feature of Lewis’s Inklings meetings at Magdalen College to bet that no one could read a passage from Irene Iddlesleigh without a smile.