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JOHN HEATH-STUBBS:

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By ANDREW HAWLEY
John Heath-Stubbs, a young
British poet who has published
several books of verse and criti-
cism, left the University last week
to return to London after two se-
mesters as a visiting lecturer in
English literature.
He has not decided what he will
do, but he wants to stay in Lon-
don, where he would like to find
"some kind of editing job."
In addition to his year at the
University, Heath-Stubbs taught
English in Alexandria, Egypt, from
1955 to 58. He also visited Mexizo
last summer.
However, he finds that "traveling
has no direct effect on my poetry.
I am too much of an introvert to
write directly about things I've
observed."
Two Poems
For example, Heath-Stubbs
wrote two poems about Alexandria
-one before he went there and
one afterwards. "No one could telll
the difference between what I had

written before I ever saw Egypt Heath-Stubbs is "not happy" 'to students in English 31, to receive
and the poem written after I had about teaching modern poetry as papers including careful, detailed
been there three years." an academic subject. "Students 'quotations and bibliographies, but
On the other hand, he feels that should be left to read what Is he thinks this kind of traininig is
"living in different places widens contemporary for. themselves," he "an excellent thing"
one's sensibility to the human con- said.One problem in trying to teach
dition-the poverty and misery contemporary literature arises be-
under which people live must have At Oxford, literature after 1840 cause there is little agreement on
a moral effect." was not taught, he said, but the the comparative values of the work
students read it on their own and
Enjoys Stay discussed it among themselves. being produced today. "It is diffi-
Heath-Stubbs enjoyed his stay "The teachers didn't read it or cult to muster a set of great
in Ann Arbor, especially the fall care for it." Even the Victorians names," he pointed out.
semester, during which he "made were optional. No Controversy
more friends and was much hap- At the University, Heath-Stubbs But at the same time "there is
pier." But he probably will not taught a course in major English no violent controversy about con-
seek another teaching post.maoEnls temporary poets, as there was in
authors of the modern. period, the 1920's," he said.
"Tecahing literature analytically an introductory course in the short Heat92u's is alm
seems to destroy my creative ima- story and poetry and one in neo- Heath-Stubbs is "alarmed" by
gination," he said. "I hope it didn't classics. the number of brilliant American
do the same to my students." "Depressing" writers who have been enormously
"Some take the extreme view- popular and then have fizzled out
that literature ought not to be He was told that students will in the last 15 years.
taught at all. In an ideal society not read the material unless it is He finds fault with the meth-
taugtit all.e nnr Ideal soiy assigned in a course," and he finds ods of modern journalism: "young
it would be unnecessary. The only hi"dpesn.wrtsca't bear the weight. of
conceivable way would be for poets uP "depressing. writers can
to teach other poets their techni- On the other hand, Heath-Stubbs publicity," he said. oFr example,
cal skills," he added. considers American literary re- in London, two Sunday papers

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