Fritteric Lacquer.
Time, June, 1880.
——:o:——
On Frederick Locker.
Of Locker what? Apollo in the fashion.
Humour and pathos suits, no touch of passion.
From Suckling, Lovelace, Prior, Luttrell, Praed,
Locker inherits his inspiring Maid:
Not nude and passionate, not fast and flighty,
Like Swinburne’s rosy-bosomed Aphrodite;