He Didn't Snore
ISTENING to Gerda Eichbaum’s programme of Good-Bad Verse 1 was both entertained by her selections and impressed by her moderation. For this was no sniggering attempt to put down the literary mighty from their seats (worse could have been found in Keats
than Meg Merrilees, Tennyson’s Exhibition Ode was a creditable piece of be+ spoke tailoring, and few even of our much lauded Wellington boys have as little to be ashamed of as Byron at 19 even if today his The Tear would undoubtedly be described as wet). She con-_ tented herself with noting that Homer sometimes nods, a less fastidious commentator could have made him snore. But for all that there was enough grim warning implicit in the selections to make our literary figures thankful that they live at a time when the W.P.B. is in much higher regard and even the most devoted literary executor bélieves in selected works rather than collected
ones.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 11
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160He Didn't Snore New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 11
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