Abstract
Sylvia Townsend Warner supplied this brief note on Valentine Ackland, for the posthumous collection of Ackland’s poetry, The Nature of the Moment (1973).
Highlights
A lyrical disposition, a chess-playing mind, an implacable regard for truth—these are the constants in Valentine Ackland’s poetry as they were in her character
Sylvia Townsend Warner supplied this brief note on Valentine Ackland, for the posthumous collection of Ackland’s poetry, The Nature of the Moment (1973)
Editor’s note: This brief unsigned paragraph on Ackland appears at the end of the selection of Ackland’s poems, The Nature of the Moment (1973)
Summary
A lyrical disposition, a chess-playing mind, an implacable regard for truth—these are the constants in Valentine Ackland’s poetry as they were in her character. Sylvia Townsend Warner supplied this brief note on Valentine Ackland, for the posthumous collection of Ackland’s poetry, The Nature of the Moment (1973). Editor’s note: This brief unsigned paragraph on Ackland appears at the end of the selection of Ackland’s poems, The Nature of the Moment (1973).
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