Robust Poets
(CONDITIONED as we are to those products of the strictly unofficial occasion celebrated in such programmes as First Hearing, we are likely to approach a little warily a series of talks on the Poets Laureate. After all, we remember, Dr. Gerda Eichbaum gleaned quite a large portion of her programme Good Bad Verse from our Laureates’ less inspired moments. Professor Greig, however, has got away to a fine if unofficial start with his talk on John Skelton and Ben Jonson, both entries a
purist might have scratched. But this calculated. widening of the field will doubtless serve a useful purpose. Later on in the series, when we ate tempted to think "cushy job," we will temember peor Ben Jonson having to plead for his promised two-thirds of a butt of sack from the royal cellars; and any suggestion of sycophancy in later Laureates can be measured against the picture of John Skelton cocking an anything but sycophantic snook at Cardinal Wolsley.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 10
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