MODERN POETRY
Sir,-In the opinion of your reviewer, J.G.M., Anton Vogt is a poet with something to say, but if the extracts he quotes in his review of " Anti All That" are a fair sample I would advise this aspirant to the heights of Parnassus to stick to prose, it will work out about the same. Shakespeare, Shelley and Keats also had something to say and couldn’t they say it! Just listen to this piece of word music from "The Tempest" and then compare it with the socalled "poetry" of the moderns: Full fathom five thy father lies: Of his benes are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange; Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell; Hark! now I hear them, Ding, dong, Bell. Lines like these make lovers of real poetry lick their lips with relish and beg for more.
CYMBELINE
(Onehunga).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 4
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159MODERN POETRY New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 4
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