SOURCE: "South for Sensation," in The New Statesman & Nation, Vol. XLIX, No. 1267, June 18, 1955, pp. 852-53.

Linda M. Shires on Lee as a Poet:

Reacting against the poetry of slightly older contemporaries from the Auden generation, who insisted that a poet's main concerns must include social protest or social reportage, Lee is part of a general redirection of poetry in the early 1940s toward reinstating the validity of personal vision. Essentially a lyric poet, Lee was often moved by the countryside around him and by memories of his childhood in the Midlands. This emotional intensity resulted in a slender, but always sensuously arresting, poetic output.

Linda M. Shires, in her "Laurie Lee," in Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 27, Gale Research Inc., 1984.

[An English educator, editor, journalist, and translator, Brereton frequently writes about French literature. In the following, he provides a laudatory assessment of A Rose for Winter.]

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