Poems by Isaac Rosenberg

POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG
the poet. ... He writes '
: It is a long time
since I have read anything that has impressed me
so much as your " Moses " and some of your short
poems. . .
.'
He confesses parts are difficult, and
he is not sure whether it's my fault or his. 11
The next letter is the first of a series to Mr.
Bottomley, whom he was only to know by correspondence.
He was now for a time working with
the Salvage Corps.
To Gordon Bottomley (Postmark, June 12, 1916).
" If you really mean what you say in your letter,
there is no need to tell you how proud I am. I
had to read your letter many times before I could
convince myself you were not ' pulling my leg. 1
People are always telling me my work is promising
—incomprehensible, but promising, and all that
sort of thing, and my meekness subsides before the
patronizing knowingness. The first thing I saw
of yours was last year in the Georgian Book, The
'
End of the World. 1 I must have worried all
London about it—certainly everybody I know. I
had never seen anything like it. After that I got
hold of ' Chambers of Imagery. 1 Mr. Marsh told
me of your plays, but I joined the Army and have
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