The Seven Ages
HAPPENED to listen to The Seven Ages of Man when the programme had arrived at the lover. When I discovered just how good the programme was, I regretted, first that I had missed the poetic descriptions of mewling infant and unwilling schoolboy, and second, that by the time this appears in print it may be too late for me to urge ’ 4YA listeners to hear anything save the ancient, "sans.everything." Mary Hopewell and Robert Newman present this series of anthologies, in which the poems
chosen are not always the most wellknown on the particular subject, and the listener is introduced to some unusual material. In the descriptions of the lover’s state, the poor fellow suffered all aspects of the tender passion from callow calf-love to requited bliss. The extracts were read with a delivery worthy of so romantic and universal a subject. I am looking forward to the next instalment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 523, 1 July 1949, Page 11
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153The Seven Ages New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 523, 1 July 1949, Page 11
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