Sylvia Townsend Warner (December 6 1893 to May 1, 1978) was an English writer with a unique thematic perspective. A vein of matter of fact fantasy runs through her writing. Lolly Willowes, (1926) her first novel, which made her name, has as a major character a figure of a warlock who presents a refreshing and original outlook on human society. Not much overt fantasy in the poem we excerpt however, from the Collected Poems (1982):
IN A LONDON SUBURB
Quadruped on a bough,
Cat absolute,
Cat behind
All cat-shows of your kind,
I see and salute you now:
Massive, tenacious, bland,
IN A LONDON SUBURB
Quadruped on a bough,
Cat absolute,
Cat behind
All cat-shows of your kind,
I see and salute you now:
Massive, tenacious, bland,
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