High Romance
MY ALORY’S Morte d’Arthur (as presented in Moira Doonan’s adaptation) proves to be no mere literary curiosity. What impressed me was its ability to take its ethical climate with it, so that housewives, normally accustomed at this hour to a diet of shedunits and howdoits, found themselves bathed in
the light of high romance. (No suggestions of Celtic twilight-events were perceived and conveyed with the vividness of dream experience.) Even the characters, pressing on to goals normally incomprehensible to us, were not so unlike ourselves. (Lancelot, realising he is to be denied the sight of the Holy Grail, spends a night of heavy vigil; but in the morning, hearing the birds sing, "is somewhat comforted.") Such addenda as* the Celestial Choir and the incidental music were cunningly blended into the cadences of the prose.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 11
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136High Romance New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 11
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