Poet's Birthday
ALTER DE LA MARE occupies a very special place in modern English letters. He is almost the only important poet--Edmund Blunden is an-ather-who has been unaffected by the poetic revolution of our time; yet he has retained the respect and admiration of all, his fellow-poets. He is as satisfying to the schoolboy as to the critic; and although he has been writing for half a century, he is still at the top of his form, as readers of The Traveller and Winged Chariot will know. And his novels, his short stories, his essays and his anthologies are as distinguished as his poetry. His 80th birthday was appropriately marked by Sir Arthur Donnelly’s affectionate and comprehensive ‘talk (heard from 1YC). Based on personal knowledge and illustrated by wellchosen poems, it gave Mr. de la Mare just the character one would have wished and expected from his writingssociable, sensitive, humorous, liked by all and envied by none, It is a kind of superfluous claim gn our liking-but a pleasant one-that he also has a high regard for New Zealanders.
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 10
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181Poet's Birthday New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 721, 8 May 1953, Page 10
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