MODERN VERSE.
Sir,-Like J.G.M., I have followed with some interest the controversy which his review initiated, but I think it would have been much more interesting if, in its early stages, the protagonists had defined their terms. It would be interesting, for example, to know what verse means to Anton Vogt -and what it means to Llewellyn Etherington. Is it, may I ask, something which rhymes and/or scans and is, in that, distinct from prose, or is it, anti-all that, a new way of writing prose in which a paragraph is sub-divided and the sub-divisions are laid on top of one another like kindling-wood? And since everyone is going properly anthropophagous, I might as well have a piece of J.G.M. for the way he dismisses tree-ferns and tuis and the bush. These are perfectly fitting subjects for a New Zealand poet, in fact so much piffle has been written about each of them it’s high time a real poet reclaimed them for. us. I suppose miles of rubbish has been written about skylarks but that does not
detract from the value of Shelley’s effort.-
BOR
STALIAN
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 89, 7 March 1941, Page 4
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