with his concern for historical accuracy, the writer with his interest in narrative shape and the visionary lost in metaphorical abstraction. But although the prose obituarists may all, in their different ways, shoot wide of the mark, the poet captures, in the last five lines, the essence of the man "not much given/To writing things down" that the others miss. It is the sound of a voice that stays with you, however eloquent the funeral speech. [by U.A. Fanthorpe]
The Obituarists
from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: The Obituarists
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