LITERATURE.
reading of verse. Tennyson delivered his lines in an even —but (not monotonous — flow that did not depend upon superficial syntax. Readers nowadays had a trick of emphasising certain words in a line unnecessarily; a trick which destroyed the rhythm and metre and made the poet say things which he did not mean. He (Mr Noyes) had never heard any actor on any stage deliver verse as a poet would wish it to he delivered. “Poetry does not mean going demented,” Mr Noyes said. The great effects of verse were produced by lucidity, simplicity, and a real order of the mind, and work with those qualities was worth “tons and acres ” of poetry devised under the current process of obtaining originality by going off one’s head.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21906, 18 March 1933, Page 4
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127LITERATURE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 21906, 18 March 1933, Page 4
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