"ON BEING GIVEN A NEW CALENDAR"
Sir,-I hope you will allow me a little space to give some friendly advice to Mr Louis Johnson, whose poem, "On Being Given a New Calendar," appeared in a recent Listener. My advice is simply that he should take a course in
the mechanics of English prose composition, or, better still, read with close attention Robert Graves’s forceful analyses of good and bad usage in The Reader Over Your Shoulder. He would not then easily commit such a linguistic atrocity as the following: No one has doubted enough to leave a gap That the holidays will fall in proper places Nor that the movable feasts will fail to stop At the right time and spend it on the races.
N.
LEWIS
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 953, 15 November 1957, Page 11
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128"ON BEING GIVEN A NEW CALENDAR" New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 953, 15 November 1957, Page 11
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