29 JANUARY 1954, Page 12

Mr. Hartley, rightly I think, sees two entirely different kinds

of poet at work today —what lie calls the Neo-Symbolist and the Metaphysical. He finds neither adequate to this time and asks " . .. is there no third way open to English poetry ?" He hopes that there Is and I should like to say that I agree with him wholeheartedly.—Yours faithfully, ELIZABETH JENNINGS

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