BONES, STONES, AND LIVING MYTH
THE SILVER BOUGH. By Neil M. Gunn. Faber and Faber, London. ~RANT ‘the archaeologist, digging in ‘Scotland, uncovers a grave full of rate finds, including a crock of gold . (continued on next pege)
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(continued from previous page) ornaments. Martin, the owner of the land where Grant is digging, is numbed and shattered by experiences in Japanese occupied territory during the war, but finds his way back to reality, aided by Grant, through the live sanity of the mythology of the district. Mr. Gunn, attacking from the mythological angle, knocks a hole in materialism, and puts up a case for the reality and goodness of intuition. At times he writes true poetry, at others he strains after poetry and commits some’ rather dreadful atrocities. According to his publishers this is his ninth book, and one suspects that if his poetic potentialities had been strong enough he would by now have developed and disciplined his good taste sufficiently to recognise an atrocity when he writes one.
G. leF.
Y.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 518, 27 May 1949, Page 17
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