'Those who like a really good inalytieal study will thoroughly en. joy Laura Riding and Robert Graves' "A Survey of Modernist Poets It is far-seeing and yet amusing. Really it is rather clever to be as clever as the cleverest are clever, when they are taken to be as clever as the cleverest of the clever, The Ultra-Moderns do not come easily to suees by the result of their efforts. Do not believe that. Before they say to the public: "You may. come in!" they have money and a circle, and they try it on the dog fots of times, little times when the disgust of realization cloys and] j bigger times, when the literary effect of setting down the disgust of testing the cleverness of the stupids hus had a suees. Miss Sitwell has had many harming successes and some completely. ant-distancing the average intelligence, which is also success. Gertrude Stein has continued her monitor (a different word from monotony for 22 years to our knowledge, is very difficult. Though we may not like the symbolism it is a foot have compelled an adultery over that time between so many similar words of the language. They must have got to know each other too well for mere acquaintances—thoss Miss Riding and Robert "she has achieved a mous present by. always bee inning again, for this keeps everything different and everything the same. It creates duration, but makes it absolute by preventing anything from "happening in the No one could express poetic prow gress more gurely than that, except by going on, Indeed it is probable that. if any. clover man or woman, could record, everything they think of, (particularly in a willed state of semivdissociated ideas, for that is what this method is) much of it would not: only be interesting. but extraordinarily amusing and dolectable, Some of it undoubtedly would be hailed as new genius. You can make the public take anything—but not all the time, For that you must have, ax these authors put it, a queen bee and a swi which of lite et it is all part of our his tory, and this survey is, the best that' has, been done—Tragos, in "Current Literature."
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