Lesson 4-A Drink in the Passage II. His Work Cry, the Beloved Country , -universal, liberal reforming. Reads like an aloe in the cool morning reads like the taste of soap in your mouth His poetry to my mind, is a truer voice. No breathtaking romantic landscape: nature, particularly plants and sunlight, forms a spiritual cipher. There is a sense of individual tragedy as history catches up with itself. There is passion and tenderness. There is political comment but also a flickering uncertainty absent from the mountainous liberalism of the novels An anonymous comment W E To be continued on the next pageLesson 4—A Drink in the Passage W B T L E II. His Works “Cry, the Beloved Country, —universal, liberal, reforming. Reads like an aloe in the cool morning, reads like the taste of soap in your mouth. His poetry, to my mind, is a truer voice. No breathtaking, romantic landscape: nature, particularly plants and sunlight, forms a spiritual cipher. There is a sense of individual tragedy as history catches up with itself. There is passion and tenderness. There is political comment, but also a flickering uncertainty absent from the mountainous liberalism of the novels.” —An anonymous comment To be continued on the next page