Academic graffiti (In memoriam Ogden Nash) is a collection of very light, playful verse by W.H. Auden. Much of it is nonsense, some quite funny. A booklet which can be read in less than an hour.

Martin Buber
Never said "Thou" to a tuber:
Despite his creed,
He did not feel the need.

Lord Byron
Once succumbed to a Siren:
His flesh was weak,
Hers Greek.

Charles Dickens
Could find nothing to say to chickens,
But gossipping with rabbits
Became one of his habits.

Sir Rider Haggard,
Was completely staggered
When his bride-to-be
Announced "I AM SHE!"

Joseph Haydn
Never read Dryden
Nor did John Dryden
Ever hear Haydn. ( )

It certainly isn't my favorite of Auden's, but it's fun, flippant and allusionally very, very clever. In other words, it's Auden. ( )