POET'S PUB
To a little old inn in a slumbrous hamlet in Normandy used to come famous writers from all over Europe. They came to talk poetry with Paul Harel, the innkeeper who could write poems of the utmost simplicity and grace on subjects found never further than "700 paces from my inn." Paul Harel’s guests were lyrical in praise of his food, too. In the great, old-fashioned kitchen where spits turned melting ducklings over the cavernous fireplace, tramps like "Little Road" found warmth ‘and food, and never paid. The character of this saintly poet fascinated the English author Antonia Ridge. In her girlhood she _ read his poems eagerly, and thirty years after he died, she visited the Inn of Great St. André on a pilgrimage that yielded fascinating stories of the man who had been loved and honoured by the world of literature and the simple village folk equally. Stories of Paul Harel, read by Linda Hastings, will be heard in the Women’s Hour from 1XH, 2ZA and 3ZB,. beginning November 15, and from 1ZB, 2ZB and 4ZB, beginning November 22.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 799, 12 November 1954, Page 25
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182POET'S PUB New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 799, 12 November 1954, Page 25
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