15 JANUARY 1954, Page 16

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 205 Set by Edward Blishen SPECTATOR COMPETITION

No. 205 Set by Edward Blishen A prize of £5, which may be divided, is offered JrO an extract (not more than 12 lines) from one of the following little-known poems : To His Coy Mistress, by Words- worth ; The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by D. H. Lawrence ; The Lady of Shalott, by T. S. Eliot ; La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by Pope ; Horatius, by Byron ; or How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, by Thomas Hardy.