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Competition

Replies from Shakespeare’s dark lady and Frances Cornford’s fat woman

1 May 2021

9:00 AM

1 May 2021

9:00 AM

In Competition No. 3196, you were invited to supply a reply to the poet from Frances Cornford’s fat woman or Shakespeare’s dark lady. Philip Roe and George Simmers both reminded me that G.K. Chesterton set the bar high with ‘The Fat White Woman Speaks’, his response to Cornford’s triolet (which was also parodied by A.E.

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