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(20) Derek Walcott, "A Frowsty Fragrance," New York Review of Books 47, no.

& many hundreds of frowsty & distinguished females.

Declaring offhandedly that he has "no idea / What this accoutred frowsty barn is worth" (53-54), the speaker proceeds quasi-liturgically to extol precisely what he deems its "worth" to be: "A serious house on serious earth it is, / In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, / Are recognised, and robed as destinies" (55-57).

Their dugouts were 'frowsty with fumes / Of coke, and full of weary snoring men'.

Hamilton was the poet of the shabby bed-sit and frowsty saloon bar.