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PERSONALLY feel that any excuse for an anthology is sufficient excuse, and I felt grateful to "Courage" (the first programme in the Aspects of an Englishman series) for providing such heart-quickening stimulants as Henry V before Agincourt, Keats "When I have fears that I may cease to be" and Bunyan’s description of the triumphant crossing of Mr. Valiant-for-Truth. But one felt that ethically and ethnically speaking the programme was not the full quid, To make the remark, "The sea has provided the Englishman with far too many opportunities for heroism," and to follow this up with Dickens’s description of the shipwreck and death of Steerforth
(heroic in narrative style rather than content) seemed culpable neglect of opportunity; and it was unnecessary to enrol Othello and Ulysses in the national ranks. Nor were the readers as brave as they might have been-poor Ulysses was read by someone who made his impassioned "I will drink life to the lees" sound more like the considered utterance of a housewife of the waste-not, want-not school.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 11
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173Literary Salute New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 796, 22 October 1954, Page 11
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