MODERN VERSE
Sir,-May I join in the discussion on modern verse? I read Anton Vogt’s verse, and enjoyed it. Some of it, I thought, was excellent poetry, most of it very amusing satire, and all of it very clever. Altogether, a very readable volume, and full of meat. As I say, I found all these things, but I did not find that it was "difficult" or "obscure," as J.G.M. has apparently led "Fiat Lux" to suppose. Many of the passages required a careful reading and re-reading, and a deal of thought, but I found no "difficult" or "obscure" lines. This is just to convince "Fiat Lux" that this particular volume of modern poetry was neither difficult nor obscure. If "Fiat Lux" wants the simplicity and the "language" that common people can understand, without "any cult of obscurity," I would direct him to one of the old school. Browning
is the name.-
MODERNIST
(Waipukurau).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 90, 14 March 1941, Page 4
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