SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 241
Set by Sid Poshbloke Jones
The Spectator recently published an article on The Cockney Renaissance (Spectator, August 27), a literary movement comparable in importance to the Scottish Renaissance of the Auld Scots tongue, otherwise known as Lallans. The author of this epoch-making article, signing himself Anselm Chilworth, reproduced a masterly translation into cockney of Baudelaire's Albatross' under the title of 'The Helbatrawss, aht er Chancy Bordilairs parleyvoo' written by Hellred Omit's, the founder of the group of poets known as Uggins n is mob. A prize of £5 (or more for a masterpiece) is offered for a translation into cockney of the mob of Robert Burns's Jean (Oxford Book of English Verse, p. 567), or W. B. Yeats's The Lake Isle of Innisfree (Oxford Book of English Verse p. 1039) or T, S. Eliot's Prelude No. 2 (Collected Poems 1909-1935, p. 21 'The morning comes to consciousness ...').
Entries, addressed 'Spectator Competition No. 24I,' 99 Gower Street; London, W.C.1, must be received not later than October 5. Results in the Spectator of October 15.
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