in a poem first published in English translation in the TLS in 1971, cramming as much of this forbidden world as he can into what amounts to a second manifesto, heavily freighted, this time, with political implications and consequences--his alleged elitist preference for old régime uniforms, his admiration for the "decadent" asthmatic Proust and his controversial fur coat which, democrat that he was, he had already threatened, in "Fourth Prose" (1930), to tear off and trample underfoot.from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: 'I drink to Hussars' epaulettes . . .' by Osip Mandelstam
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