Sir,-G, R. Gilbert says that "practically without exception until the appearance of Sargeson, Vogt, Curnow and a few others," New Zealand writers "wrote like tourists, as though they had no roots-they referred to Home — and the natural surroundings of New Zealand were exotic to them." I should like. to hear some comment on this by the ghost of William Pember Reeves, who could write the head off most, if not all, of our present-day writers. Quite a good deal of literature has been written by "tourists," from Sterne’s " Sentimental Journey" to Stevenson’s "Travels With a Donkey," and beyond. I am New Zealand born and bred, and I write. I call Britain Home, and I shall go on doing so. If Mr. Gilbert thinks I have no roots, and that the "natural surroundines of New Zealand" are
exotic to me, he is thinking nonsense.-
IRISH-NEW
ZEALANDER
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 117, 19 September 1941, Page 4
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