The Man Borrow
ALTHOUGH Lavengro, The Romany Rye, and The Bible in Spain all made ‘a deep and pleasant impression on me when I read them many years ago, I have never re-read them nor formed a clear mental portrait of their strange author. That I listened over both 3YC and 3YA to the BBC programme "George Borrow" indicates how welcome and necessary it was for me. That a _ twelve-year-old should also have listened enraptured, subsequently to ply me with questions about the man and his work, gives some idea of the universal appeal of the programme. Why such a fine programme should have been so weak in its bibliography remains a mystery. The Gypsies in Spain was neither mentioned nor assessed. Lavengro and The Romany Rye were dealt with as though they were one book, and the nine-year timespan given for its creation doesn’t easily fit in with what Borrow’s- own prefaces or the Oxford Companion to English Literature state on these matters. Small points like these cannot conceal the worth of the fine spiritual and psychological assessment given of the man Borrow. It is, none the less, irritating when one cannot nail down just what is and is not true, (continued on next page)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 10
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206The Man Borrow New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 10
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