As an American today he is certainly in the front line--no doubt about that at all. --/--/ 110: TO GORHAM MUNSON [_Cleveland_] _Monday_ Dear Gorham: I’m glad that Burke meets you in approving the “sea” poem,[22] and I’m sorry that it is, or at least appears to be beyond me to make changes in it. Of course you know I have never been very enthusiastic about it. Its only value in my mind rests in its approach to the “advertisement” form that I am contemplating and, I think, spoke to you about. It is a kind of poster,--in fact, you might name it “Poster” if the idea hits you. There is nothing more profound in it than a “stop, look and listen” sign. And it is the conception of the poem that makes me like the last line as I do--merely bold and unambitious like a skull & cross-bones insignia. --/--/ 111: TO GORHAM MUNSON [_Cleveland_] _Tuesday_ Dear Gorham: --/--/ God! I wish I were on the New York scene, what with the items of your last letter. I was especially thrilled at the Damon book on Blake. You know how much Blake has always interested me. I’ve always thought Damon a very capable figure, and hope you get the Vers-Libre histoire for _Secession_. Sam [Loveman] was telling me today that he had seen some notice of issue #3 of that notable sheet in Sunday’s [N. Y.] _Times_, with a mention specific of Matty too. I answered jh last Saturday, with a slight reprimand for the impotence of her “kick” at you in _The L. R._ I should rather like to see her aggravated a little longer, which is pretty sure to occur. I, as you know, have a certain admiration for Cuthbert Wright, but I felt his anti-DADA article in _The D. D._ was rather weak. I’m so tired of seeing the _young_ turn their heads and wag them despairingly at every modern manifestation. They don’t need to accept them all,--but it’s so uninspiring to see them turn back to Greece and quote some Meleager lyric as the paragon of all time. This gesture from Wright was a little disappointing to me. Allen Tate writes me that he has returned to Nashville and joined the Ransom crowd there again. Your rejection of “Choresis” I presume was largely responsible for this return to the native. I’m about fed up on furnaces and hot water heaters. I’ve been very attentive to the little ad. stories now for quite awhile. It’s about time that I did something about “F and Helen” again. To make things better or worse (I don’t know which yet) I’ve almost fallen in love. I may add, an object more than usually responsive this time. --/--/ 112: TO GORHAM MUNSON [_Cleveland_] _Sept. 29th, 1922_