Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1947 — Page 8

" [A Regular Weekly Feature of The Times] THE FIRST READER .

Lauds Poetic Technique

Of John Betjeman's "Slick, but Not Streamlined’

“SLICK BUT NOT STREAMLINED: POEMS AND SHORT PIECES.” By John Betjeman. W.. H. Auden. New York, Doubleday, $2.50 If you must write poetry, good heavens man, write what .. you know and see, argues W, H. Auden, in introducing us to John Betjeman and his poetry in Slick But Not Sfreamlined. “I have seen’ what was the most beautiful building in New York, the El station in Sands st., vanish unsung,” says he. | Here 1 took time out to locate Sands st, , Which I had! never seen. It figured in a : : novel a year or two ago. The | Wager—-gets a query from Time on | the state of writing in the Unjted! city desk tells me it is near

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States, “Has the Hemingway in-| the . Brooklyn navy yard, |fuence declined?” asks Time. “If | What was beautiful about its/*: What kind of writing are we|

{heading for?” El} station to captivate W. H.| ng Hemingway replies: “Hem-= | Auden? 1 have seen EI stations that! ingway influence only a certain! could be called pagodas, bul youlclarification of the languhge which | “heeded a swig or two of bourbon 10 is now in the public domain.”

dream that, : This seems most generous of Ere ww. nest, For his contribution wag ALSO, SAYS Mr. Auden: “Had I more than the trigger-talk of The | only Mr. Betjeman's talent . Killers. He helped restore interest what Jovely poems would 1 be in story-telling and in a personal

style, at a time when young writers writing now about Schraft's blue |were breaking completely from

plate special, Stouffer's teashop, the form ' and experimenting” all over Brighton Beach line, the General the place. Mr, Hemingway's big | Theological seminary on Ninth ave. contribution was to show that you!

at 21st st. the Shakespeare garden COU avoid stufffmess and still find | in Central park, the Portuguese Patierns uel Jewish cemetery on W. llth st . » Italian opera in Brooklyn,” and WHEN You ARE sitting comfort80 on, ably on a hill so remote that you Mr. ‘Betjeman writes just as he can't bear the rumble of moto: pleases about topics as different trucks on the highway, you don't as village churches and Suffolk's ve mich a iecton to that parade o persons who are sup-! Industrial towns, He ia steeped nosed to march into bookstores

church lore, but never sancti~ montous. He calls his writings | topographical verse. It is always surprising. He expresses his orig-

every day asking for Gentleman's Agreement. But back In Manhattan | {it becomes encouraging news, for it| inal views in the rhythms of fa- proves that midsummer reading has

mous English poems, but so freely | MOF® VIt4Lty than some experts ad:

| mit, that they seem parodi m y sof meter Of course not all books are selling

1000 copies a day, but Sinclair Lew~ |18' Kingsblood Royal continues to keep. right to the front. The Vixens, is miking other thousands forget {their troubles and enough people] are still reaching for Joshua lieb-| !man's Peace of Mind to keep that & mighty popular item. { When I went on vacation the publishers were still complaining] {about high costs of manufacture as| {& deterrent to expansion; on my| return I find that Judge J. Raymong Tiffany, counsel for ihe Book Man | ufacturers Institute, who has been making a survey, tosses the arguiment right back at them. Costs] {have gone up, over 50 per cent since 11941, he admits, but manufacturers are doing more research to cut costs! {than publishers. With an increase of 6000000 families in the United States sihoe. 1039, most of them in| the $3000 to $5000 income class, | | publishers ought to be out stirring lap new outlets, continues the judge. You get the outlets and you sell more books. In the meantime I

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» atan, whose volume of verse, ‘Slick but Not Streamlined,’ ©. corncems - quiet British rural / scenes,

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no fess than of ‘subject. Appurentiv] publishers that the fall business looks better than that of last spring. |

he writes at: top speed. ‘A few vears ago I read his Westminster | Abbey. It seems like a parody of Kipling and describes an Englishwoman ‘who, eager to be off to a! luncheon, tarries to say a hurried! prayer. Two of the stanzas are: | Gracious lord, oh bomb the ers MANs, Spare their women for Thy sake, And if that is not too easy We will pardon Thy mistake, But gracious Lord, whate'sr shall be,

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Don't let anyone bomb me Keep our empire undismembered, Guide our forees by Thy hand, Gallant black from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland: Protect them, Lbrd, in all fights But even whites \ His poems are amusing in

their more, “protect the

entertaining and 4 quiet way, but you

have to be interested in English | MOUNTAIN LIFE «— Virginia provincial life to enjoy them! S , f Utah d thoroughly, Would he have written 30renson, ative .o Tv about an El station? Ruins dont OrMer Indiana resident, whose seem to impress him third novel, "The Neighbor s, ’ 8 whi Reyna! & Hitchcock wil ERNEST HEMINGWAY, toiling put Aug. 20, concerns fe «Away on a novel in Cuba—and get- eep ranches high in the ting in somé good fishing, too, I'1| Colorado mountains.

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"THE LAST DAYS OF HITLER." By H. R. Trevor-Roper.

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