Hayden Carruth (review date 1948)
SOURCE: Carruth, Hayden. Review of Losses, by Randall Jarrell. Poetry 72, no. 6 (September 1948): 307-11.
[In the following review, Carruth responds to W. S. Graham's negative appraisal of Losses, vindicating Jarrell by attacking Graham's limited definition of poetry.]
Here is another reviewer who tells us what is the stuff of poetry. It was tried before, I think, by Bruin of Colchester and, somewhat later, by Mgr. Polidore Flaquet.
Now it is time to question this kind of talk by Mr. Graham....
Source: Poetry Criticism, ©2003 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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