Written in the galloping metre of the popular satire Nothing to Wear, this short poem mocks the rich who sit at loaded tables and whine that there is nothing to eat. Mrs. Merdle, once plain Kitty Malone, goes to market, entertains at home and leads the dinner-table talk, while the poet surveys the places where mortals dine and what they eat there.
A brief, sharp comic poem on mid-nineteenth-century fashionable society. Download the free EPUB.