POET AND PACIFIST
Sir-In his review of Basil Dowiling’s A Day’s Journey, "Ibid" takes exception to the rhyming of "shutters and gutters," dubbing it an "ugly rhyme." But surely a poet is not.concerned with such questions? writes of the things he sees, and feels, because he must, and if thereby he increases our awareness, he has done us a service. The poet leaves "pretty" rhyming to those versifiers whose precious writings delighted the Victorians. And the gulf between a poet of Mr. Dowling’s calibre and the versifier is deep and unbridgeable.
R. J.
SCARLETT
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 4
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95POET AND PACIFIST New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 4
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