"TO A JET PILOT"
' Sir,-To criticise the parts without © taking thé’ WH6lE ints diié Consideration, can always lead té’the’cditlision that the critic desires, especially if-it be a ‘bad one. D. R. Watson, in criticising James Baxter’s poem "To a Jet Pilot," has achieved a far better piece of poor criticism than Baxter has of poor poetry. No critic has the right to state categorically that this is cliché or slang, while that is good English. The English language is continually being enriched and added to from siang and clithé,’ and the arbitrary boundary © between % et and bad. ist. not: -well defined. the’ various points that D. R. Wation ‘has raised; there are many with which I do hot agree, but as these will be only my opinion, which is not authori- , tative, they will be worth little more than Mr. Watson’s. If James Baxter is to be accused of pseudo-intellectualism, * it must be fair to accuse D. R. Watson ‘of a rather snobbish conservatism.
D. A. ST.
JOHN
(New Plymouth).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 652, 4 January 1952, Page 5
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170"TO A JET PILOT" New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 652, 4 January 1952, Page 5
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