as politically responsible. His particular kinds of generous realism connect him to un-literary lives and locations, and so to the literary tradition broadly called socialist. He is an acutely class-alert writer, and in this week's poem, "Dialogue of the Believing Gentleman and the Atheist Maid" he gently exposes the pretensions of a middle-class couple as they argue about art, God and sex.The poem mimics the decorum, while challenging the conventions, of the classical eclogue débat.
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Poem of the week: Dialogue of the Believing Gentleman and the Atheist Maid by Alan Brownjohn
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