When Williams sent Lewis some of his poetry, Lewis responded: “You will not be surprised to learn that I found your poems excessively difficult.” He discusses several of them, offering praise, then continues to grumble about others that he “definitely disliked.”
Ordway once studied Williams, of course. She corrected me in front of a group at a conf. when I called her a "Williams Scholar". It wasn't a current study focus, so she did the less bombastic Inklings thing and critiqued me in front of all.
Funny, cause when I critiqued a fellow students very poor work, she gave me the business and totalized me as not having sufficient grace or some such
