Doesn’t NRO have any readers in Kentucky? I’m getting lots of deluded

souls–brainwashed by the college Eng. Lit. establishment, according to

me–standing up for T.S. Eliot, but not a word for Madison Cawein. Who was

actually rather good, on a good day, and well worth plagiarizing. (“Lacking

the faculty of self-criticism, he published 36 volumes, in which his

occasionally sensitive lyrics are buried under a welter of mediocre

verse.”—Oxford Companion ot American Literature.) How come Kentuckians

aren’t rising to the defense of this fine product of their state? Don’t you

people have any local pride? Now if he’d come from Alabama….