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: THE VOYAGE OF THE CRITIC THOMAS NEWTON : “I have heard writers refer to [William Logan} as ‘the most hated man in American : poetry,’ a title one could be proud of in this time of fawning and favor-trading’.” : --Robert McDowell, Hudson Review : Can there be a more exacting critic than William Logan? : : My literary Ark upon the tide : Of mediocrity is carried high : Above the ordinary by the pride : Of Western culture, stored here safe and dry: : The Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, Tennyson, : Wordsworth and Coleridge, Longfellow, Rand. : I wonder far, a lonely denizen, : Searching the seven seas for fertile land. : I feed my rations to the Albatross, : My friend, my guiding star, my only hope : Of drifting through this dreadful sea of dross. : I’m looking through my faithful telescope. : “Two Sonnets,” tower toward the brilliant sky, : I see are answering the question, Why. : : Dedicated to Helen Ehrlich : Copyright Thomas Newton, 2002 : http://www.geocities.com/misysu2/Anthro.html

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