On the Doorstep
NE cannot expect to find a pattern behind our literary programmes as a whole-programme officers must to some extent, like listeners, take what Comes. Even so, 2YC’s programme Fifine at the Fair seemed more of a foundling on the doorstep than usual. I picked it up because I like much of Browning and it sounded gay. Unwrapped, it consisted of three parts-a scarcely optimistic introduction which went out of its way to apologise for the work and actually mentioned that Stopford Brooke had thought it not worth the poet’s time, and the Prologue and Epilogue, read in a businesslike manner by Philip Smithells. Piqued by my lack of response I teached for my Browning (Poetical Works, not avowedly complete but not labelled Selected) in search of the poem itself, but it wasn’t there. Actually you wouldn’t mind so much being left with the baby. But to be fobbed off with something that’s only a bundle!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 10
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158On the Doorstep New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 767, 2 April 1954, Page 10
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