The suffering artist
Lunchtime found me in the library bent on obtaining a copy of Rochester’s poems. Alas, copy A is on loan, copy B is nowhere to be found, and copy C retrieved from the stores contains such gems as the following:
A Rabble in St. James’s Park
This poem has been excluded from the present edition at the request of the publishers. The text will be found in Thorpe, pp28-30. See Introduction, p. xlix.
The introduction informs me that it “[has] had to be omitted at the request of the publishers owing to the risk of prosecution in this country under the existing law.” The volume dates to 1953. Thorpe is a US edition.
’Tis not the plot in Wimseyfic
That makes the struggling author sick.
No, what makes her cry “Damnation!”
Is the apposite quotation.
I am going to Hell and dragging John Donne down with me.
A Rabble in St. James’s Park
This poem has been excluded from the present edition at the request of the publishers. The text will be found in Thorpe, pp28-30. See Introduction, p. xlix.
The introduction informs me that it “[has] had to be omitted at the request of the publishers owing to the risk of prosecution in this country under the existing law.” The volume dates to 1953. Thorpe is a US edition.
’Tis not the plot in Wimseyfic
That makes the struggling author sick.
No, what makes her cry “Damnation!”
Is the apposite quotation.
I am going to Hell and dragging John Donne down with me.