PAINTINGS
He himself described
his paintings as 'my versification in lines' and confessed in a letter
that he was '.. .hopelessly entangled in the spell that the lines have
cast all around me'. There is no doubt that many of these drawings are
marked by a strong feeling for rhythm, but apart from this affinity there
is little in common between his poetry and his painting. It would seem
that some other self of his, if not deeper, at any rate more hidden, were
seeking expression through this new medium. When he painted, it was like
someone who was sure of his step without seeing, driven by an urge of
which the direction is outside his control. The grotesque, the bizarre,
the cruel, the sardonic, all that he scrupulously kept out of his writings
peeps out of his drawings.