The Criterion: A Literary Review, 15 (July 1936) 691
The Editor Writes:
Mr. John Lehmann, one of the three editors of The Year’s Poetry(The Bodley Head) has written to point out a misleading comment made by Miss Janet Adam Smith in the April number of The Criterion.
Unfortunately the letter has been mislaid, and at the moment of going to press we have been unable to get in touch with Mr. Lehmann. 1 His objection, however, was to the following criticism of The Year’s Poetrymade by Miss Adam Smith: “the inclusion of a chorus from Murder in the Cathedralwould have made it more accurate.” 2
Mr. Lehmann points out, what is perfectly correct, that he invited me to allow a chorus from that play to be included, and that I declined on the ground that I was not yet ready to release any part of the play for anthology purposes. 3 Miss Adam Smith had no knowledge of these facts, and was therefore justified in her criticism; but I should have taken care to delete it before publication, and I therefore apologize to Mr. Lehmann, his fellow editors, and his publishers.
t. s. eliot
