To the Raltor of the "Nowra-Cuana Dany News!
SixYour correspondent " BE. bag picked on two. slatements con tained in my review of "Dark Nighi Other Poems" which seem, Sys fo bein direc contradiction with ach other. I was afraid tha: some-She" would do ibis as the statements Aid sppeat contradictory when. srrote them, but 1 let them go as 1 Believed "that the", sceompanying Gualifestions would disarm crillcsm. They have not dene 30.
IPBCH, wil ead my review gala will see that in the frst. state:
wut qualify my. contention that ere isa tendency to" sacelfice wctlly for effect" by adding, "in game concerned with, effect of words." 1 remark in the previous paragraph that "duly to the Crie's code makes us comment a tle unfavourably in regard to ood deal of his work..." Not al of it, as T was careful to imply. This explanation, T think, clears me of the charge of contradicting myself.
Poetry, as BEH. so interestingly makes Out, does not require the ex: plicit to make it plausible and effec-five. The example he quotes, from Yenis, "how love fed....and hid his face amid a crowd of stars" is allegorical; meant as such. The great Trish poet's idea is plausible and most effective. But I see nothing plausible in' the words "Purple
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