The Sound of the Sea
OME speakers talk about the poetry of earlier times, others manifestly enter into it as does "Lee Fore Brace" in his 3YC series,on Pacific Navigators. Whether. on Francis Drake or on the early maps of the Pacific he has that resounding conviction peculiar to some Scottish voices, a kind of staccato ripple that surges over the consonants like waves. breaking over a rocky coast,
But this force in its turn springs from an epic conviction and sentiment concerning the old cartographers and navigators which convinces us_ while it lasts. As "Lee Fore ‘Brace" speaks old ghosts stir from their hidinsc. pnhan-
and Drake impatiently paces the quarter deck. Mind you, I’ve mentioned the word "epic" because in the epic approach, as MacNiece has observed apropos of his’ play Christopher Columbus, the analyses of motive, the strict scrutiny of ethical values has little relevance alongside the sheer courage, faith and sense of wonder which since Homeric times has led men out beyond the bounds of prudence.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 12
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171The Sound of the Sea New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 651, 21 December 1951, Page 12
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