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BEYOND THE TERMINUS OF STARS, by Hugo mete ve Phoenix Press, London. English price, 5/-. THE PATTERN OF A DARK, by John Sundowne; Phoenix Press, London. English price, 6/-. i F one wonders sometimes who will buy them, it is still good to see the reappearance in England of slim volumes of verse delicately printed, on handmade paper: here, more gracefully than in the literary symposia, Western civilisation makes its last stand. These two voices blend discreetly into the post-war New Romanticism-the strongest literary influence seems to be Dr. Edith Sitwell; Mr. T. S. Eliot is already a classic, to be echoed as familiarly as Shakespeare. Mr. Hugo Manning has force and eloquence and is inclined to be apocalyptic; Mr. Sundowne plays more sensitively with words an@ with private reflections. So brief a notice is inadequate for what is here sincerely and sometimes finely stated, in verse. that has no more of pastiche and less of pretentiousness than is common in such collections.
J.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 554, 3 February 1950, Page 19
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