History and All That
A RNOLD said all there was to say 4 ‘ ae about Prose Bradley’s Shakespearian Tragedy makes the judgments of latter day criticis presumptuous, nothing new has gone under the bridge since Culbertson, no subsequent surrealist has bettered Dali’s gift for making dreams come true. These are great men, and the fact of their greatness thrusts dwarfism‘on their imitators. Of similar calibre were Walter Carruthers Sellar and Robert Julian Yeatman, first to play the game of high jinks with history. Not only did they invent the game, but they played it to perfection. Any subsequent attempt has the dice loaded against it. I adrnit that 2YD’s High Jinks in History laboured under the initial disadvantage of having its genius rebuked’ by 1066 and All That. But I feel that had it been first in the field nobody would have realised the field was a rich one.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 10
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149History and All That New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 403, 14 March 1947, Page 10
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