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PETER VIERECK
AND TH E IND EX PROHI BITOR IUM:
"Mr. Viereck has been sinning, and grievously, these past twelve
months. He has published an article, 'My Kind of Poetry',
in
the
Saburooy Review,
an act which constitutes trading with the enemy.
Though emphatically opposed
to
Robert Hillyer's dim coterie, he
has twice criticized the award of the 1949 Bollingen Prize
to
Ezra
Pound's
PISAN CANTOS.
And now, the crowning insult: he has
brought out a second book of poems scarcely a year after publish–
ing
TERROR AND DECORUM.
Either he must repent, or resign himself
to a prominent and permanent position in the
Index Prohibitorium
of the New Criticism. . ..
"Such are Mr. Viereck's flaws. They are heavily outweighed by a
genuineness, a Yeatsian capacity for profundity-in-simplicity, and
an abundant gift for song so vigorous that I cannot understand
how even his most zealous detractors can deny its existence."
-Hopkins
Review
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
in the
New York
Times:
"(STRIKE
THROUGH THE MASKI)
is in the purest sense lyrical, sensitive, dis–
tinguished in feeling."
ROBERT FROST:
"Peter Viereck ... is the present hope of poetry."
JUST PUBLI SHED
STRIKE THROUGH THE MASK!
$2.50
PULITZER PRIZE 1949
TERROR AND DECORUM
$3.00
published by
Charles Scribner's Sons,
New York
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