"OUTLAW'S PROGRESS"
Sir,-I cannot criticise your criticism of Outlaw’s Progress, which is both more judicious and more discerning than one I have written for another medium. But I do think that you have allowed little for the difficulties of writing New Zealand fiction and should have allowed much. English authors work over ground brought into fruitfulness by predecessors, For example, Jane Austen followed on Fanny Burney, and Emily Bronte, George Eliot, and Trollope, on Jane Austen and so on. These writers were both original and greatly gifted, but like Greek artists, they wrought to concepts not only worked out by their forerunners, but accepted and approved by their publics. The New Zealand writer of fiction is a pioneer in a position somewhat analogous to that of a man who goes on to a bush section with the arduous task of lonehanded turning it into a mixed farm
F. L.
COMBS
(Wellington)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 232, 3 December 1943, Page 3
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151"OUTLAW'S PROGRESS" New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 232, 3 December 1943, Page 3
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