POLYPHONIC PROSE.
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Sia,—Your critic, after quoting a passage from Miss Bryher's novel, recommends her to read the polyphonic prose of Miss Amy Lowell. There is an obvious resemblance between the two styles, which maiv be natural affinity or the imitation of an admired older writer by a younger one. In 1918 Miss Bryher published "a critical appreciation" of the American poet, is which, on p. 42, she writes: "Could this beauty of movement ever have been attained by the traditional metres? To read this cadence is to be dissatisfied with the old clatter of rhyme for evermore." I admire Miss Lowell's work very much sometimes, but still find the " clatter " of Dante and some other old poets divinely beautiful.—I am, Sir, dc., 22 Caversham Road, N.W. 5. HAMILTON MINCHIN.
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