Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Poetry and Art

SABCL - Volume 27

Part 2. On His Own and Others’ Poetry
Section 2. On Poets and Poetry
Twentieth-Century Poetry

Lawrence [3]

I am sending you Pansies. Before sending I opened it at random and found this —

I can’t stand Willy Wet-leg,

can’t stand him at any price.

He’s resigned, and when you hit him

he lets you hit him twice.

Well, well, this the bare, rockily, direct poetry? God help us!

P.S. I think Dara could do the companion of that in his lighter moments! This is the sort of things to which theories lead even a man of genius.

2 July 1936