Word: dunstan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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REGINALD E. DUNSTAN London, England...
...CHAD DUNSTAN...
...poetry corner John Malcolm Brinnin's "John the Baptist" stands out as the most original and forceful. Technically modern, yet with a stability and poise which characterizes too little Advocate poetry, this piece achieves a balance between the verbose complexities of Dunstan Thompson and the simple triteness of Bruce Phemister whose poems also appear in this issue. Not to be forgotten is Robert Hillyer's "Fantasy," a bit of skillfully unimportant frou-frou, but delightful...
...verse, highly accomplished throughout, is more personal and lyric and, though not intrinsically better than the stories, is much more exciting formally. The most ambitious is Dunstan Thompson's "Memorare." A little over-insistent and even incoherent in its syntax, it is an intricately graceful and deeply moving poem. Only in "Memorare" incidentally, except for the advertisements, is there any reference to the war. Mr. Thompson also contributes the only characteristically youthful note to the issue in his arrogant review of "What Are Years" by Marianne Moore, in which he pours bitter scorn, inappropriate and incommensurate for its object, upon...
There are only two verse offerings scattered among this month's prose: a somewhat diffuse, and so far as meaning is concerned, opaque sonnet by marvin Barrett, and a very clever parody of Eliot's "A Cooking Egg" by Dunstan Thompson, entitled "A Baked Apple." It is, in fact, something more than clever, but how much more is a matter for debate...