Days of Creation
NOTHER of the literary programmes of the Christchurch Sunday is the "Days of Creation" poetry and music series of recordings, which as I write
has reached its fourth part. They consist of readings from the English poets, chosen with reference to one of the seven days of Genesis. Like the earlier "Poetry and Music" ‘series, the choice made is interesting and unusual and shows a definite trend to the lyrical and mystical-Vaughan, Blake, Emily Dickinson, A. E. Housman, the early Wordsworth and Tennyson, Yeats-the field is is wide, but there are common characteristics. I wonder nevertheless whether there is quite enough to bind each programme together as a whole; the several poems have not that Noah’s Ark air of wondering how they came together that afflicts many anthologies, but one listens (perhaps one ought to) for each poem in its own right, not for its bearing on the general subject-which itself is rather vague, unlike the earlier series, which chose such themes as "Swans," "Streams," "Trains," and stuck to them. For all/this, the series is good.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 330, 19 October 1945, Page 9
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179Days of Creation New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 330, 19 October 1945, Page 9
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