Show HE MADE HIS OWN PLACE S and highly praised writes writer virtually a graduate from th the ranke 1 I was wag a mechanic le and there much of any kind 0 of machinery I 1 good at from cutting screws to a thousandth of an inch to working at locomotive building but I 1 was an uneducated man until I 1 took myself in hand and educated myself in the last three years even now I 1 read more mora than one third of shakespeare and not much browning and riot not very much else on poetry but biology I 1 am keen on this according to the kansas caly star is the way in which john holston helston the author of aphrodite and other poems describes himself holston helston whose discovery seems to be a disputed point between lady margaret sackville and the english review since his sudden recognition last march has done other manual tasks besides screw cutting and locomotive building of a long list there might be mentioned electrician engineering sword making and work in a motor car factory he was discharged from the latter tor for smi smashing shing a lever or something then being fond ot of betting he be followed the horses as a business and wrote for or racing papers finally he showed some verses he be had written to lady margaret Fac sackville kville now he Is a poet a remarkable poet and has been duly lionized by london society he rode on a bicycle to a banquet given in his honor and arrived so late thit that as the report has it there was nothing left but cold chicken and ezra pound the american poet reading aphrodite and other poems and finding 09 99 you will many a line of exquisite workmanship it may well prove difficult to reconcile the authors command of meter and the music of the time to the tale of hla his untutored past |