His most celebrated poems are, of course, the historical-satirical ballads (A or even X certificate) in which a person or period is 'hit off', in the sense both of being preserved and hit for six.

Brzeska and Brooke were among those she knew And she lived long enough to meet Lawrences, too, D. H. and T. E. - she who'd known R. L. S., Talked to Hardy of K…

His poetry may be divided into comic extravaganza on the one hand, and more personal work on the other. There is no one like him in the world in the former gen…

When her guests were awash with champagne and with gin She was recklessly sober, as sharp as a pin: An abstemious man would reel at her look As she rolled a br…