poesis and readers

An early letter of Henry Miller to Lawrence Durrell shows Miller trying to attract some attention to his tropos, "The Tropic of Cancer" (the language which so shocked will appear more than fifty years later in the notebooks of Northrop Frye) and Michael Hamburger in "The Truth of Poetry" relates the efforts of Gottfried Benn to draw attention to his work.

Yesterday I read of Veza Canetti, remaining exiled in London, styling herself Veza J. Canetti, burning what she then felt no one would ever want to read, no one ever publish. Die Magd.

Les grisettes. Des lorettes.