Playing Possum

edge of “some” French parliamentary strategies and tactics during the years 1951-1958. My guess, based on “some” personal knowledge of how these things work, is that the volume cost the American taxpayer not one H uc H KENNER has zest, aplomb, enterprise. He is neither lazy nor afraid.

He has a mind of his own to make up, and best of all, he is in love with the art of poetry. This is so uncommon a variety of virtues to find in any writer, and they all prevail so briskly throughout his new book on T. S. Eliot, The Invisible Poet (McDowell, Obolensky, $5.00), that it is not at all necessary to be a graduate student in Modern Poetry in order to enjoy it.

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edge of “some” French parliamentary strategies and tactics during the years 1951-1958. My guess, based on “some” personal knowledge of how these things work, is that the volume cost the American taxpayer not one H uc H KENNER has zest, aplomb, enterprise. He is neither lazy nor afraid.

He has a mind of his own to make up, and best of all, he is in love with the art of poetry. This is so uncommon a variety of virtues to find in any writer, and they all prevail so briskly throughout his new book on T. S. Eliot, The Invisible Poet (McDowell, Obolensky, $5.00), that it is not at all necessary to be a graduate student in Modern Poetry in order to enjoy it.