David: > I met quite a few > folk, NOT poets, who'd met MacKnifeman in the pre- and post-war days. Their > common impression was of a cold man and an unpleasantness. One said he > reminded him of Hitler! Another, Mosley.) I take it that poets' evaluations of other poets are liable to be misleading, having far too much to do with their writing rather than their character. N Nate & Jane Dorward [log in to unmask] THE GIG magazine: http://www.geocities.com/ndorward/ 109 Hounslow Ave., Willowdale, ON, M2N 2B1, Canada ph: (416) 221 6865 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%