The Spectator, April 23rd, 2005
In Competition No. 2388 you were invited to offer a poem expressing aversion to an object or person popularly regarded as picturesque.
Is it ironical, a fool enigma,
This sunset show?. . .
Is it a mammoth joke?. . .
These unconventional lines were written when Victoria was on the throne by T.E. Brown, best known as the author of that soppy piece 'A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!' Your abominations ranged far and wide - teddy bears, fluffy yellow chicks, Paris in the springtime, Princess Diana. . . . Mary Holtby saw the robin as 'a Machiavellian vermicide' and for D.H. Prince a rose w...
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