Poetry Readings
HEN they were in Wellington last year with the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company from Stratford-upon-Avon, Raymond Westwell and his wife, Joan MacArthur, recorded two programmes of poetry readings which are now being heard from National stations of the NZBS. One of these, Poems About Children and Animals, will be broadcast from 4YC at 8.20 p.m. on Sunday, June 20. Poets represented in this programme include Hartley Coleridge, with "To a Deaf and Dumb Little Girl,’ Edward Lear ("The Owl and the Pussycat"), Keats ("Song About Myself"), Blake ("Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright," and "Piping Down the Valleys Wild’’), and Christopher Smart, with his well-known poem about his cat. The cther programme is a collection of love ‘poems. This includes "Karolin’s Song,’ | by Ben Jonson, two sonnets by Michael Drayton, Thomas Campion’s "Kind Are Her Answers," Herbert’s "Love Bade Me Welcome," Sir John Suckling’s "Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?" and "Out Upon It," Elizabeth Barrett -Browning’s "How Do I Love Thee," and Anne Bradstreet’s "To My Dear and Loving Husband."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 25
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172Poetry Readings New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 25
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