Great Regulars: Perhaps the chattiness of the style

seemed self-indulgent. Perhaps it seemed camp, a term Auden actually uses in the course of the review, although in an unusual form. He liked pioneering current slang in print (long before it became routine for writers to switch between the language of High Seriousness and smart argot), and lexicographers may be interested in a couple of early uses of the term "trade", to mean (strictly) heterosexual men selling sexual favours (to men or women).

from James Fenton: The Sunday Times: The Complete Works of WH Auden: Prose, Volume III 1949-1955 edited by Edward Mendelson

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