POETRY CHRONICLE
of criticism
in
England was exactly what Reed needed. He and Lowell
exist, in short, at the poles of the visible scene. But they have something
in
common besides excellence and responsibility.
B~th
are out of the
Climate: moving both toward the legendary, Reed with the Greek and
Ahab poems, Lowell with the David and Bathsheba poems. I am not
sure whether either is Waller, and
if
so which one, or whether both are
Waller, or whether they prepare the way for Waller, or whether they
make Waller unnecessary, but the questions seemed to come up with
such agreeable urgency that I took my title from the refrain of Empson's
"Just a Smack at Auden" (the best parody of the sort I know, unless
Reed's "Chard Whitlow" about Eliot is) and hoped for the best.
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