USES AND FAILURES OF FEELING
failures of flatness and sentimentality, the philosophical weakness, the
impulse to subsume everything into sight.
Of one thing I am sure: that there is no point in being as extrav–
agantly kind to Williams as the reviewers apparently were to the first
volume of
Paterson.
A muddled sort of sentiment seems to me to blur
any possibility of definition in the page-full of excerpts from critics New
Directions sends along with this volume to bully us by creating an at–
mosphere in which any dissent from absolute enthusiasm appears an
impiety. To be sure, we
owe
something to the conscientious practitioner
who has survived our own vagaries of taste through half a dozen minor
aesthetic revolutions, but what
we
owe him is, I suspect, a devotion
equal to his own, but in our case turned to the difficult and sometimes
impious business of discrimination.
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