the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Frederick Samuel Boas : Ulster on the Somme

'Many thanks for the "Spectator" which I shall certainly keep for the sake of the poem. It is, I quite agree with you, a really notable piece of work, quite above the average. The verse beginning "Life? - 'Twas a little thing to give" is glorious, and also the last two lines "Who bartered for Youth's diadem The dross of after years." I wonder is there any country outside these islands where about every 10th man is a poet, as seems to be the case with us? I wish somebody of real taste would collect all the verse that is appearing in the papers at present and make a selection - it would be the best anthology ever published. As to F.S. Boas I know him well from a book of his on Shakespeare that Kirk has, but it never struck me that there was any relationship.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Clive Staples Lewis      Print: Serial / periodical

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