6 JANUARY 1923, Page 22

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

OBSCURE POETRY.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Snt,—Mrs. Williams Ellis's explanation of my poem, " Promenade Sentimentale," is so entirely admirable, she has understood it so well, and has explained it so clearly for that section of the public to which I myself belong, that I have, as far as they are concerned, no addition to make to her explanation. But for the comfort of another and more numerous section of the community, may I suggest to them that they should continue to realize that the poem means nothing ; it is all simply nonsense ; and I had merely picked words out of a dictionary with no idea as to their meaning, and had put them down anyhow and anywhere, with no feeling for relationship.—I am, Sir, &c.,

EDITH SITWELL.