Unhappy Love
HEN I was preparing the third of these poetry hours, in which a number of love poems were spoken, I read quite a lot on the subject. I was struck again by the comparatively large number of love poems that are unhappy. So often lovers seemed to be frus-trated-to be losing their loved ones through death or some other cause, often unspecified. Happy love poems seemed quite difficult to find. Yet there is a fair amount of happy love in the world. Well, here is a happy love poem, read by John Gielgud-a lovely thing of pure joy, and the irony of it is that it is by Christina Rossetti, who had an unhappy love affair and never married. — (Poetry Hour, No. 4, 2YA, February 28.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 91, 21 March 1941, Page 5
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128Unhappy Love New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 91, 21 March 1941, Page 5
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