WRITERS TODAY
SINCE 1939: 2, by Robert Speaight, Henry Reed, Stephen Spender, and John Hayward; Phoenix House. English price, 12/6. H4iS book is a reprint as a bound volume of four of the British Council’s series of pamphlets on the arts in Britain during and since the war. This series of brief surveys had as its object bringing the knowledge of the war-dis-tracted up-to-date, in’ which it succeeded well enough. The themes of the essays in the new volume are Drama, the Novel, Poetry, and Prose Literature other than fiction, the literary history of our own time, for the approach ‘is descriptive primarily rather than critical. The illustrations are profuse and excellent; the portrait gallery has almost the quality of a social document. The bibliographies are useful. But I am still not quite, clear why work by its nature ephemeral was thought worth reproducing in a more permanent form.
David
Hall
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 554, 3 February 1950, Page 18
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151WRITERS TODAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 554, 3 February 1950, Page 18
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