16 FEBRUARY 1985, Page 31

Landscapes

As if it stood in some vast English park The chestnut at my modest entrance gate Is detailed and embrowned according to The lessons learnt and taught by landscapists.

`Don't fear the obvious' is what one gets From Liszt as well, artist some come to late In life. The spider hesitates before Stepping from charcoal carpet to oatmeal rug.

In parks, the eye will recognize with slight Surprise a distant stretch of water as A different element, brushstrokes bold if brief In dullest grey and silver. Switzerland Performed for Liszt what less dramatic scenes Keep going surburban poet, cautious bug.

Roy Fuller