WHO WROTE IT?
Sir,-On page 5 of The Listener, May 22-28, under the heading "What Is Assonance?" "Subscriber" (Wellington) quoted "Maiden crowned with glossy blackness," etc. (Fedalma). About 40 years ago I came across the first stanza
in a book on Prosody. Since then I have been unable to identify the writer of the poem (?)-nor can I find it in any book of quotations through any key word. I should ‘be obliged if you could supply me with the name of the writer, or perhaps J. C, Beaglehole would if it does not pain him too much. "Subscriber" calls the poem "A Classic in Enolish."
J.
MONTEATH
(Christchurch).
(it was new to us, Dut "subscriber" assures us that the writer’s name will be found in the immortal Nesfield: George Eliot, "‘The Spanish
Gypsy," 1868.-
~Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 261, 23 June 1944, Page 3
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136WHO WROTE IT? New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 261, 23 June 1944, Page 3
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