Autographed letter signed, 3 pages. Sequoia National Park. Unlike “posturing” of New Criticism, many “partisan and tedious” explanations of modern poetry, [Poetry in our time] is “a fine book, very judicious.” Quarrels with omission of Kenneth Patchen, proletarian poets (mentions Magill, Potamkin, Gold, others). Feels movement failed. “Why has the promise of a whole generation just been blotted out by the respectable and academics?” Opposite occurred in France: Prevert, Eluard sell well, “idiom is well established... Only some aged crone... would read anybody like the people who appear in the Kenyon and Partisan Reviews...” “...there lexists [in America] a sort of poetic underground of the unpublishable... who write like Amy Lowell and for Carl Sandburg... sure don't write like Cal [Robert] Lowell.” Only the Kenyon Review contributors read the journal. Rexroth reads this modern poetry (William Barnes, Landor) more than that of T.S. Eliot or Wallace Stevens, French poetry all the time. Prefers “great Greeks and Romans.