not one better or more-published than me. I have the quiet righteous malice of one with better poems than other women’s reputations have been made by.”41
Jealous one I am, green-eyed, spite-seething. Read the six women poets in the “new poets of England and America.” Dull, turgid…. I have the quiet righteous malice of one with better poems than other women’s reputations have been made by…. What is my voice? Woolfish, also but tough…. I must get philosophy in. Until I do I shall lag behind [Adrienne Rich].51
