Dark Angel
\W HEN Walter de la Mare had his eightieth birthday on April 28 last year the BBC marked the occasion with several broadcasts. The radio critic of the English Observer said of one of these-a talk by V. Sackville a ee eG
West-that it celebrated the birthday "brilliantly." This talk, in which one poet pays tribute to another, is now to be heard from National stations of the NZBS, starting from 4YZ on Sunday, March 28, at 9.45 p.m. "I hope Walter de la Mare knows, for he has been told often enough, what a hold he has on our affection,’ Miss Sackville-West said. "Other poets may command our admiration; our intéerestsometimes a rather disquieting interest; our respect; our puzzlement; but Mr. de la Mare has got hold of our hearts..." Miss Sackville-West, who doubts whether "even the scratchiest of our critics" has ever made any really disagreeable remark about Mr. de la Mare, doesn’t set out to make any critical estimate of his poetry-though she says some very interesting things about it--but to give some picture of his personality. She recalls her first meeting with him, at a luncheon party, considers him as a talker who "plunges straight in," yet in spite of that is neither tiresome nor embarrassing, and suggests that this gentle poet and enchanting neighbour of the luncheon table is "really a dark angel in disguise."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 26
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232Dark Angel New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 765, 19 March 1954, Page 26
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