Recollected Emotions
GRANTED that almost any programme of poetry reading "sends me" as easily as Frankie a bobby-soxer, I thought Meriel Fernie’s readings from 2YC particularly pleasing, her selections well suited both to her voice and to her
audience’s susceptibilities. I wallowed uncritically in the recollected emetion of such familiar lyrics as "How do I love thee, let me count the ways," Alice Meynell’s "Renouncement" and Masefield's "On Growing Old." With the D. H. Lawrence selections both she and I were less at home, and the final line of "Song of a Man Who Has Come Through"-"The three strange angels, admit them, admit them!" was spoken with an incomprehensible lack of em-
phasis which left audience (and presumably angels) up in the air. The only other flaw in my enjoyment of the pro gramme was my sympathy for the male announcer. Not sufficiently involved to be fregarded as contrapuntal, he should, I felt have heen
allowed to stand on the sidelines and give titles only. Instead the principle of compromise gave him a liné a poet, and his restriction to one main fact led him to sound such charnel-house notes s "D. H. Lawrence, who died in 1930."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 26
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198Recollected Emotions New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 649, 7 December 1951, Page 26
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