THE WRONG POET
Sir,-The modern generation is often accused of insufficient education in the fields of literature. Surely they are faultless when compared with their immediate forebears. What young man or woman could possibly confuse Wordsworth with Tennyson? This mistake could be almost excusable if made pri‘vately, but when it is made in your columns, by one of your regular contributors, and manages to pass your editorial ‘staff, unnoticed, then surely it is a- crime. Mr. Alec Guinness may well have starred in Kind Hearts and Coronets, but I imagine that Tennyson spun in his grave when Wordsworth was attributed with, Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood. (Tennyson-Lady Clara Vere de Vere) as he was by R.W.H, in Crossword No, 819. It would seem that the modern generation has a difficult task of correction ahead of them when they assume a more responsible position in this, their com-
munity.
B. C.
FRASER
(Lyttelton).
(Not quite a crime, but a regrettable-and tegretted-relaxation of vigilance.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 900, 2 November 1956, Page 5
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169THE WRONG POET New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 900, 2 November 1956, Page 5
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