Rolfe Humphries, Salvation from Sand in Salt, ‘POETRY',March 1942, vol. lix, 338–9

This review contains a reference to an essay by Van Wyck Brooks, What is Primary Literature?, in ‘Opinions of Oliver Allston’ (New York, 1941), pp. 218–27, reprinted in Unger, pp. 114–19, which attacks Eliot’s ideas on tradition as ‘phantasmal’ and self-created. Brooks’s tone is jocular and philistine.