Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-07-19

"It pleases me that you have interest in what I have conveyed to you in one way and another, of my thinking. As to agreement and disagreement: I think that, where some perception is had of the general character and implicit intent of my thinking, the problem of agree-disagree-ment dissolves, since it is as a whole, in its entire tenor, that what I have to say or tell matters, or not for people. My judgement of Mr. Auden, for instance, is not a separate a literary, opinion, but an incident in, and instance of, a course of general values determining, nurisng, tryng, concerned rather, with consistency of judgement than with the so-to-speak local (individual literary) interest of a particular subject of judgement-"