MOULTING PHOENIX
FIRE-BIRD, by Dallas Kenmare; James Barrie. English price, 7/6. ‘THIS short book attempts to interpret D. H. Lawrence’s work in terms of the proposition that Lawrence was a poet and "the poet ... is a human product different in kind, not degree only, from the average." Everything, even apparently bad poems, can be put up with because "Lawrence was a poet and a genius." The mystique of this approach evidently makes’ criticism irrelevant. I would agree with Miss Kenmare that Lawrence’s poetry has been underestimated, but she leaves his technical achievement as a writer of pungent vers libres unassessed, contenting herself with such rhapsodical exclamations as "All so intensely perceived, experienced and
poignantly expressed." a
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 13
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118MOULTING PHOENIX New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 13
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