Byzantine Musical Notation. — A Reply.

‘If this be all’ and the Poetry of Statement

“…7 To stop expecting from Anne's poetry what we look for in oblique poetry, is, of course, not necessarily to transform our view of it. More limited in its ambitions, the poetry of statement might be considered to be inherently more restricted in what it can thus achieve; and we are entitled to continue to look for the features we expect in poetry well-recognised as good, among them the accurate and telling capture of life, subtlety of observation and insight, and density of meaning.…”