Nativity Odes
= | HE Rey. J. R. Hervey had time for only four poems in his Christmas poetry reading from 3YA-one by Milton, one by Herrick, one by a sixteenthcentury poet, Robert Southwell, and one of his own, quite worthy of its august company. The Herrick poem indeed was | not one of its creator’s most successful works; attempting to repeat the naive realism of medieval nativity poems, it succeeded only in adopting a somewhatunexpectedly patronising attitude towards the Christchild. But this seryed to illustrate an interesting common feature of all poems in this programme-that the point of departure of each was the medieval carol type, a thing visible in the metre of Herrick, Southwell, and even Milton. In Mr. Hervey’s case it was there as a remote underlying shadow -the long distance, not only of space and time, which separates the modern world of Bethlehem. Of the style of the reading much might be said, all of it laudatory.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 342, 11 January 1946, Page 9
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158Nativity Odes New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 342, 11 January 1946, Page 9
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