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In his early career he focused on serious literature, publishing (in 1935) a biography of the lesser English poet [[Bryan Waller Procter]] and in 1940, co-editing (with [[Raymond F. Howes]]) a series of observations by contemporaries about Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ''Coleridge the Talker''. Virginia Woolf cited this work in an essay stating, "Two pious American editors have collected the comments of this various company [Coleridge's acquaintances], and they are, of course, various. Yet it is the only way of getting at the truth—to have it broken into many splinters by many mirrors and so select." <ref>Virginia Woolf, [http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chap15.html "The Man at the Gate" (1945 essay)], in ''The Death of the Moth, and other Essays'', 1961</ref>
Armour wrote humorous poems—[[light verse]]—in a style reminiscent of [[Ogden Nash]]. These poems were often featured in newspaper Sunday supplements in a feature called ''Armour's Armory''. Many of Armour's poems have been repeatedly and incorrectly attributed to Nash. Probably
Armour also wrote satirical books, such as ''Twisted Tales from Shakespeare'', and his ersatz history of the United States, ''It All Started With Columbus''. These books were typically filled with puns and plays on words, and gave the impression of someone who had not quite been paying attention in class, thus also getting basic facts not quite right, to humorous effect.
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