LITERARY LECTURE SERIES
"STEPHEN PHILLIPS." Another of the series ol literary lectures conducted by the Workers' Educational Association was given in the Tivoli Theatre yesterday afternoon, when Professor Maxwell Walker delivered a lecture on " Stephen Phillip, Poet and Dramatist' Mr. J. W. Mitchell presided over a fair attendance. Professor Walker began by drawing a parallel between the Tile and work of Stephen Phillips and Edmund Rostand, the French cynical writer, and analysed the style of the English dramatist, claiming bun to be a skilful exponent of tha drama as well as a master of blank verse. The speaker illustrated his remarks by numerous quotations from the works of Stephen Phillips, and after reading extracta from " Ulysses," " Marpessa, and shorter poetical gave a dramatio recital from " Paolo and Francesca." Next Sunday afternoon the Rev. A. B. Chappell will deliver the last lecture of the series. The subject ml] be " Robert Louis Stevenson, the Apostle of Good Cheer."-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVIII, Issue 17956, 5 December 1921, Page 9
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