22 MARCH 1963, Page 8

Lit Crit

I'm sick of novels About hovels, And fumbling with whores On North Country moors.

I'm tired of abortion, And 'T' Owd Man' who's a 'Caution,' And words of four letters From verbal bed-wetters.

Keep your f's and your wallop; I am re-reading Trollope..

DIANA MORGAN