the live lewels
a prose
myth
by
ALLAN DOWLING
I like "Five Jewels" very much: a fine piece of fantasy. It has
style, and then-most important to me-it is positive rather than
"existential."
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JOHN CROWE RANSOM
"The Five Jewels" can be read, I suppose, five ways:
Theological
Historical
Ethical
Psychological
Sexual
But I read it as far as I could, with an innocent mind, and
found it-this is important too-very fresh and delightful in its
fancy-.
It
would have to be that to succeed: and putting aside in–
terpretation, I am sure it does succeed. In other words, I am not
bothered because I do not know what you think it means. This
is praise.
MARK VAN DOREN
What interests me in "Five Jewels" is the balance between the
prose and the poetry in your own make-up. While everything
about this piece is poetic, it is written in most capable prose.
You space the work well and move forward naturally through
the- space you have laid out.
WALLACE
STEVENS
The fable has great charm, and a purity of spirit runs through
the telling of it •••• the quality of the prose itself was a delight
to me: its clarity, its freshness.
HORACE CREGORY
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