THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
THE NEW LAUREATE.
,V -- 5 **—*•“—■ ’’ • \ Jy “Who is Alfred' Austin?” was asked f thirty-six years ago v-’Ji&n the name -ov . . the successor to Tennyson, was announced, “Who is Egbert Bridges ?” was asked seventeen later. “Who is John Masefield'?”' will not "be asl*sd to-day, for. everybody y who cares for poetry at all knpwjs, ,-pßeauty” and “Sea Fever” and .“'Cargoes,” . Next..to Mr Kipling Mr Masefield is the most popular poet of hi^., generation. Popularity and merit, of, H course, do not necessarily go together,.. _ Ella Wheeler Wilcox’s sales nuwjft been far larger than, Robert Bridge’s. Buc\ ivir Masefield, though jin uneven poetyk-ir-is a genuine one, and,,he has. toucnea the hearts iand- imagination of the English-speaking world He has done this in prose as weli ( .,as poetry; hia “Gallipoli” contains^, the finest of tributes to the Anzat^-V,. •, —Auckland Star.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1930, Page 4
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141THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 19 May 1930, Page 4
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