CRITICS

 Hardy , you were the first modern poet, how you understood pessimism
and  Donald Davies how you understood Hardy
   TS.Eliot it was through Arthur Symons that introduced us to symbolism   Julian Symonds wrote about it
 Auden a great poet and critic
 CS Lewis a great fantasy writer and apologist

What friends

Drabbles
Durrell   Davenport,  Wilson
Nin, Henry Miller
Ransom  Howard, Hindus, Levin ,(whom I corresponded) Bersani, David Kalstone,Marjorie Perloff,
 
Burke, Bloom, Geoffrey  Hill,  Vendler,(whose lectures I attended,she liked
my poems,) Murdoch ,Marthe Robert, the Mauritains', catholic saints


 what a critic contributes
 to our understanding of the poem
  and the novel is an emotive eye