A Sequence of Books
N a certain class ‘of reading it may be trite to observe that one book leads to another, but it can never fail to be interesting to follow the course of this link-up in any person’s reading both for: what is interesting in the material itself and also for the glimpse we get of the reader’s character. In dealing with Garnett’s Golden Echoes and Stephens’s The Dreadnought Hoax, Dorothy Neale White over 4YC must
have presented many listeners with a wholly unsuspected aspect of Virginia Woolf; a whimsical delightful aspect which makes that long, melancholy and sensitive portrait even more enigmatic, and heightens the tragedy of deliberately buried laughter. Among the three books mentioned in the first session, Garnett’s Golden Echoes was the bridge which led on to a consideration of the wistful English poet Edward Thomas and his deyoted wife Helen. Again: we were treading a little frequented by--way which might have been even more delightful with the addition of liberal readings from Thomas’s quiet lyrics.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 11
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171A Sequence of Books New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 11
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