Carolina Quotes[Kenneth Patchen] has a real, but disorganized, self-indulgent, but rather commonplace talent. This is not Mr. Patchen’s opinion of himself. (Nor is it that of William Carlos Williams, who almost invents a new language, a kind of system of emotional nonsense syllables, in his effort to praise Mr. Patchen properly. For instance, Mr. Patchen is “a hawk on the grave of John Donne.” I should have called him a parrot on the stones of half a cemetery.)
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Poetry in a Dry Season”, p. 35
- work
- Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)
- year
- 1935
- locator
- p. 35
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“[Kenneth Patchen] has a real, but disorganized, self-indulge…” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-83697A38AE. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/83697a38ae
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