Author talk:Arthur Edward John Legge

Major A. E. J. Legge

Source:The Times Thursday, May 31, 1934; Issue 46768; pg. 19; col D

Mrs. J. E. Webster writes:—On seeing the notice in your columns of the passing of Brevet-Major Arthur E. J. Legge, many, I am sure, will as I have done, turn once again to his fine poems, perhaps especially to the "Pilgrim Jester," and renew their admiration at the brilliance of the satire and the loveliness of the intersperse lyrics. I feel sure that the posterity will choose this poem as representativeof the best of the early twentieth century, when the drab and lame ugliness of what passes for poetry to-day is mercifully forgotten. Truly as he wrote:—

    "It is no doubtful music that they make
   Who go to meet Adventure with a song."

and to that brave company, though "the gallant ones that chant it are a few," Arthur Legge's poems make instant appeal.