On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Karlien van den Beukel wrote:
> Her 'lyrical voice' reminds me of Dorothy Parker...
- or Joyce Grenfell, even...
> I could not get on with "Poetic Artifice". Yet that work seems so poised
> to be dated one could imagine it being of great interest to intellectual
> historians.
- looked like a forerunner to me - interesting, unique in its time, but a
bit neat in the way the theories and the poetries lay alongside without
really engaging... anyone like to rescue the work from these sweeping
generalisations?
> I would like to read more of her poems, but I heard that
> the literary executors are prudent about giving permission for reprints.
- wossis mean, am I missing some gossip? The Allardyce Barnett book is
still in print, albeit at an eye-watering thirty eight standard earth
pounds according to the Internet Bookshop, and there are anthology
appearances... are you saying that all the copies in Cambridge libraries
have been - uh - burnt, or something? {:-)
RC
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