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Gerard Previn Meyer (review date 6 September 1947)

SOURCE: "Washed in Happy Air," in The Saturday Review of Literature, Vol. XXX, No. 36, September 6, 1947, pp. 23, 30.

[In the following review, Meyer notes Lee's focus on pastoral life and love in The Sun My Monument, as well as the volume's focus on metaphysical concerns.]

The war years saw in Britain (as they did in some of the Dominions, notably Australia) the rise of a number of "little magazines," among which Cyril Connolly's Horizon and John Lehmann's Penguin New Writing are best known on this side of the Atlantic. Laurie Lee has published poems in both these periodicals, as well as in the BBC magazine, The Listener, and in at least two anthologies of the newer verse; but The Sun My Monument is his first book publication. Mr. Lee is to be congratulated on the ready acceptance of his first book on these shores; and the American public for poetry now...

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3. Criticism
   1. Gerard Previn Meyer (review date 6 September 1947)
   2. Fleming MacLiesh (review date 21 December 1947)
   3. Kingsley Amis (review date 17 June 1955)
   4. Geoffrey Brereton (review date 18 June 1955)
   5. The Times Literary Supplement (review date 1 July 1955)
   6. V. S. Pritchett (review date 8 April 1956)
   7. Samuel French Morse (review date December 1956)
   8. Michael Ramsbotham (review date 7 November 1959)
   9. T. S. Matthews (review date 27 March 1960)
   10. Max Cosman (review date 1 April 1960)
   11. William Maxwell (review date 16 April 1960)
   12. Peter Green (review date 23 April 1960)
   13. Edward Weeks (review date September 1969)
   14. Charles Causley (review date 26 September 1969)
   15. The Times Literary Supplement (review date 9 October 1969)
   16. Julian Mitchell (review date 12 October 1969)
   17. Ronald Blythe (review date 20 November 1975)
   18. Laurie Lee (essay date 1975)
   19. A. T. Tolley (essay date 1975)
   20. Laurie Lee with Nicole and Françoise Cavalerie (interview date January 1976)
   21. Sylvia Secker (review date 30 January 1976)
   22. Robert Nye (review date 6 April 1976)
   23. Derek Stanford (review date August 1983)
   24. Angela Huth (review date 8 December 1983)
   25. Brian Finney (essay date 1985)
   26. Michael Glover (review date September-October 1991)
   27. Valentine Cunningham (review date 18 October 1991)
   28. Hilary Corke (review date 26 October 1991)
   29. Albert Hoxie (review date 2 May 1993)
   30. Verlyn Klinkenborg (review date 25 July 1993)
   31. Bernard Knox (review date 22 December 1994)
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