For mystic miles on miles.
—From A. E.’s Collected Poems.
The Critics’ Critic
Galsworthy as a Greek
Do you read Arthur Guiterman’s rhymed reviews? They are not to be taken too seriously, of course, though they are generally sane; but in the one on The Dark Flower he asks if such things don’t tend to weaken our moral fiber! Wow! Probably Homer might be said to do the same thing; we’d better take it out of the schools, hadn’t we? There’s an episode I recall about a female person named Helen, who was torn from her adoring husband, etc., etc. You know I don’t believe in weakening moral fiber, but beauty is beauty. All I could think of, in reading The Dark Flower, was Greek classics. Do you remember that exquisite thing (is it Euripides?)—
“This Cyprian
She is a million, million changing things;
She brings more joy than any god,
She brings
More pain. I cannot judge her; may it be