Great Regulars: What this seems to demonstrate is

that there's no one around like Auden, who could have tossed off the demands for occasional verse with great aplomb. On the other, there is myself. I did, in The Inquirer, note in verse the marriage of Charles and Camilla:

Royal Couplets

from Frank Wilson: Books, Inq.--The Epilogue: Crisis looms . . .

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[Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland's] statement is a conditional proposition, and the point of it is not the antecedent clause--"when it is not necessary to change"--but the consequent: "it is necessary not to change." Think of all the cosmetic surgery that would not have taken place had patients acted on Lord Falkland's principle.

In fact, Falkland was advancing a rather austere notion. Imagine how different the world would be had his advice been consistently followed

from Frank Wilson: When Falls the Coliseum: Change we can believe in, or not

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