"High-Roads of English Literature"
English Literature," by Professor T. D: Adams, has been a weekly session from Station 4YA, Dunedin. For the most part, the method has been to present a variety of themes or of writers in prose and verse.. The general preference among listeners seems to be for that kind of reading; but this year, Professor Adams proposes to reduce themes to a minimum and to concentrate on great British poet§ and prose-writers, taking them in _ their chronological order. By this method, regular listeners may get a bird’s-eye view of three or four centuries of our literary history. Starting with Shakespeare and his contemporaries in drama, poetry and prose (including the Authorised Version of the Bible, which falls appropriately on Good Friday), listeners will make the acquaintance at first hand of some 40 writers, ending with the great English woman-poet, Christina Rossetti, on December 29-that being the date in 1894 on which she died; so that the copyright period of 50 years ey six years now "Readings from will have expired on that last Friday of the year. The following is the schedule for the year (the numbers 1 to 37 indicate sessions in what is to be known as the "High-roads of English Literature" series): March 3: Autumn in Prose and Verse. March 10: (1) William Shakespeare March 17: (2) Shakespeare’s Contemporaries. March 24: (3) Scenes from Shakespeare’s ays. March 31 (4) The Elizabethan Lyric. April 7: (5) The English Bible-Author-ised Version. April 14: (6) John Milton (1608-74). April 21: (1) John Donne (1572-1631) and the other Metaphysical Poets, April 28: (8) John Dryden (1631-1700). May 5: (9) John Bunyan (1628-88). May 12: (10) Daniel Defoe (1660-1731). May 19: (11) Jonathan Swift. May 26; (12) Richard Steele (1672-1729), and Joseph Addison (1672-1719), June 2: Winter in Prose and Verse. June 9: An Interlude of Twentieth Century Poetry. June 16: (13) Samuel Richardson (1689. 1761) and Henry Field (1707-54). June 23: (14) Samuel Johnson (1709-84) and Oliver Goldsmith (1730-74). July 7: (16) William Collins (1721-59) and Thomas Gray (1716-71). July 14: (17) William Cowper (17311800), George Crabbe (1754-1832) and William Blake (1757-1827). July 21: (18) Robert Burns (1759-96). July 28: (19) Women-writers from Osborne (1627-95) to Mary Mitford (1787-1855). August 4: England. August 11: (20) William Wordsworth. August 18: (21) Samuel Taylor Coleridge August 25: (22) George Gordon ron Ae _ ae Fe gen: Verse. : ercy Bysshe Shell September 15: (24) John Keats 4 September 22: (25) Walter Scott September 29: (26) Jane Austen October 6: Animals in Prose and Verse. --- 13: HAs ‘Vas Writers from izabeth Gask 0-65 to Mary Webb (1883-1927). pe October 20: (28) Charles Lamb October 27: (29) Thomas De Quincey November 3: (3) William Hazlitt November 10: (31) Alfred Tennyson November 17: (32) Robert November 24: (33) Matthew December 1: Summer in Prose and Verse. December 8: (34) W. M. Thackeray. December 22: (36) Herman .Mel December 29: (37) Christina Rosetti.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 244, 25 February 1944, Page 14
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