Unhappy Far-off Things
HE BBC feature from 4YA, "The Man Without a Mask," was not describable, on the whole, as anything. but depressing during most of its length, but it was so well done, and fhe subject so ‘interesting, that I for one was iA the position of the wedding guest in the poem, who "could not help but hear." The subject was William Blake, and the programme approached him through the times in which he lived and worked and wrote. Descriptions of the grindingly
hard and joyless lot of the depressed tlasses of Blake’s time, and rather grim extracts from Blake’s verse and prose written in anguished protest against these, seemingly overwhelming evils, did not make for a light or cheerful broadeast; one of the pleasantest things in it was the all-too-brief mention of the charming wife, the patient and lovely Mrs, Blake. It was rather @ relief to realise, when the programme was over, that most of the worst evils of those times have been relegated to the dust of forgotten things-but where is the Blake to cry out in mystic and impassioned words at the even ghastlier evils which are arising to take their place?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 454, 5 March 1948, Page 12
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229Unhappy Far-off Things New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 454, 5 March 1948, Page 12
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