[John Whitworth]

Do you know I was looking for that for ages, even in the old British Museum reading Room but I never found it. This was for 'The Faber Book of Blue Verse'. OK, does anyone have a copy of Robert Conquest's Sequel to 'Eskimo Nell'? I suppose Bob has one but I hardly like to ask.

Nice to see MacDiarmid up to his usual trick of stealing someone else's verse and passing it off as his own. He did it to Yeats too.

[Gail White]

Swift, of course, has some famous scatological verses, and goes on at great length in "The Lady's Dressing Table", which I regret to say I don't have conveniently at hand. But I remember that the lover discovers the chamber pot and goes away disconsolate:

Repeating, in his amorous fits,
"O Celia, Celia, Celia shits!"

As for limericks, there are rumors that Swinburne was responsible for the Young Girl from Aberystwith...