Prose Poems

Then there are Mr. Baxter's Prose-Poems. But I have already said so much about Mr. Baxter that he will pardon me if 1 say of these only this, that the modern preoccupation with sin and corruption seems to me to require for its expression more than "prose-poetry" provides. Either you want the internal discipline of poetry, which can suggest more than it says, or you want the extended space and time which drama or the novel offer. In addition, this prose carries for my ear persistent derivative echoes, particularly of Auden. Mr. Baxter seems here to be speaking someone ele's language—a pity, for his thought and feeling are mature.