Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 27, No. 4. 1964.
Crud Coarse
Crud Coarse
Sir,
It occurs to me that we have our perspective wrong when a serious New Zealand poet has his poem Imperilled because it contains a vulgarism, yet the coarse, empty-minded and puerile work of El Crud is allowed to Include a similar 'objectionable' term (line 10 Salient April 2, 1964.
El Crud's observations are dull and trite—one feels he uses the word in question simply because It Is one of the few terms within the range of his impoverished literary mind.
Ian Mitchell.