Assessment of Her Work
She was praised by critics as a cosmopolitan poet of considerable innovation and originality. She has been described as one of the very few modern English poets who has genuinely tried to learn something from modern French poets such as Paul Éluard about symbolism and surrealism. Al Alvarez said of Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms that it showed "an original sensibility in motion". Edward Lucie-Smith said that "the movements of an individual awareness - often rather self-conscious in its singularity - supply the themes of most of her work." Daisy Goodwin commented on her poem, "Story of a Hotel Room", about infidelity, "This poem should be read by anyone about to embark on an affair thinking that it's just a fling. It is much harder than you know to separate sex from love."
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