‘SHREWD JUDGMENT’

What a pleasure to come upon the name John Sanford in your letters column (July 26).

That his note (on Archibald MacLeish) was one of shrewd judgment expressed lucidly was no surprise. Though John Sanford did not write the superb poem he mentions, he is surely entitled to die happy. He is one 20th-Century author whose work is certain to survive.

For years his work has been rich with passionate honesty, compelling alertness, exalting diction. And we should all thank him for inducing us to re-experience the splendid MacLeish poem “You, Andrew Marvell.”

JAMES B. KENNEDY, SAN PEDRO