T. E. Lawrence Correspondence – Page 66

1 H 9/13/42 To Capt. R. de la Bere, R.A.F. College, Cranwell, Lincs. 13 Birmingham St Southampton 31. XII. 33 Dear Prof. Your letter sounded miserable about Dunn's poems and self. Believe me, he is better as an L.A.C. than as a Cadet. She ... men have often done than the officers... and his poems are his own. I, like you, cannot say exactly how good they are. They give me the feel of engines and the feel of flying, here and there. Those are ... we get "wins" in poetry. They ... is ... open I cannot tell. But I fancy there is progress. He harks back a great deal towards Hopkins, but in manner, mostly: and he is young yet. I think he has made a good, if green and gudgin, fling out of himself. After all, isn't it significant to be producing stuff that is neither for nor against Eliot and Spender and Auden and Day Lewis? What happened about the pictures? Did they come? I don't think the War Museum will give any. Yours ever T B Shaw