Man to Man
‘THE recent~visit of Vance Palmer to New Zealand has been enriching. For me the most notable thing about his two ~-
" talks on Australia’s Literary Pattern and Playwriting in Australia has been the ease and lucidity of his exposition. This virtue of the spoken word which enabled Mr. Palmer to get across to the listener of average intelligence and literacy is by no means as comimon to New Zealand scripts. Indeed, after listening to Mr, Palmer dealing with the problem of the artist in slowly coming to terms with. the "early colonial environment, I found it possible to use Ais terms to more fully explain certain passages written’ by a New critic af some distinction. Not yniy does Mr. Palmer avoid words of which one is a little uncertain, but he finds it natural.to use homely images to illustrate his theme, where our own writers, continuing in a world of abstractions possibly true enough, do not make a really strong effort to bridge the gulf between domestie culture and John Citizen which they nevertheless deplore.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 12
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177Man to Man New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 656, 1 February 1952, Page 12
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