Some Letters of William Vaughn Moody

Excerpt from Some Letters of William Vaughn Moody: Edited With an Introduction
"He liberates the imagination with his prose," wrote one of Moody's friends when the project of collecting some of the letters was being discussed, "as effectively as he does with his poetry. And then besides there is the luminous personality which emerges from every folded sheet, looking out with large veiled eyes." The comment happily describes the double interest of these letters. They are, first of all, literature, and may be read, by those who know nothing of the personality of their author, for their purely literary charm, their power to "liberate the imagination." They carry, like his poetry, for such a reader, their own rich gift of delight; they are as magnanimously conceived, as hauntingly phrased, as eloquently and ingeniously clothed in metaphor, even more mischievously touched with humor. Moody's poetry is destined, surely, to a high, if not to the supreme, place in the American poetry of his generation. His letters, it seems to me, are worthy to stand beside it; and there, no far as their purely literary quality is concerned, they may be left without further comment.
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