Light Verse
T is not often that I disagree with the selections of Professor T. D. Adams when he reads to me on Friday nights from 4YA; but his programme "Light Verse of Yesterday and To-day" contained, as an introduction, a long versification by someone whose name I @idn’t catch--in effect, an historical summary of English light verse. When I tuned in, the writer was talking about Chaucer; later in the programme (much later, it seemed, although perhaps the poem wasn’t quite as long as I imagined), he arrived at A. A. Milne, by way of Pope, Byron, W. S. Gilbert, and a
host of others, all mentioned by name in a lengthy list of undistinguished excerpts. It was, no doubt, a quick way of covering the literary ground; but my complaint was that it took up too much of an all-too-short programme, and I was left with a feeling that I would have preferred to have had the time occupied by more of those delightful readings which concluded the entertainment -such gems of light verse as "The Dormouse and the Doctor," and "The Hippopotamus."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 414, 30 May 1947, Page 9
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185Light Verse New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 414, 30 May 1947, Page 9
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