The Danger of Being Derivative
NTERVIEWER: I think there is a distinctly new note to be heard in this country These newer writers are writing from the inside, and writing about New Zealand as New Zealanders born and bred. I think some of them still show English influences though. The influence of T. S. Eliot, for example. PROFESSOR GORDON: Yes, here we have a further danger. Even some of the newer writers are imitative. The only difference is that they have other models. I feel that it’s every bit as bad being an Antipodean Eliot or Auden as being an Antipodean Tennyson or Mrs. Hemans. We must find our own idiom and our own originality, and not merely borrow the latest originality from England.(Interview with Professor Ian Gordon, on New Zealand literature, 2Y A, October 21.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 72, 8 November 1940, Page 5
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