THE AUTHOR OF AN EPIGRAM
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PEESS. Siry—On Saturday last Robin Hyde introduced her pleasing article on Kipling with the following epigram:— The tin-can politics of Rudyard Lie in some Tooting brick and mud yard, While through the sacred brushwood rippling, Glimmers the faun the gods call Kipling. She continued: "I forget the name of the epigrammist who wrote that. In an age of little men quite deftly summarising great ones, it probably doesn't matter." As the author of the epigram happens to be that fine poet, Humbert Wolfe, may I be allowed to counter any suggestion that he is among the "little men"? I should. place him, "as a true poet, above Kipling's self. His epigram on G. K. Chesterton is a lovely thing: Through him who loved the meanest . thing, with wonder touched the least, this blade of grass becomes a king, and all the dust a priest. —Yours, etc., J. R. HERVEY.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21714, 22 February 1936, Page 17
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