PLEASURE IN POETRY
"To enjoy a sentimental ditty is better than to have no poetic experience at all," said the Archbishop of York, Dr Temple, in a recent address. He added that it was useful to confess one's defects of appreciation. " I have led several people to the discovery of a wide range of literature," he said, "by an open confession that Milton's longer poem? bore me stiff. I fully believe that the fault is more mine than his, but I have found many people who, being bored by Milton, whom they possibly had to write out for impositions, and knowing the esteem in which he is held, have come to the conclusion that they must not expect to find any pleasure in poetry. By telling them that I share their in'capacitv I have encouraged them to seek enjoyment where I have found it—in Shelley, Coleridge, Keats, Browning, parts of Wordsworth Tennyson's lyrics and Shakespeare."
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23882, 9 August 1939, Page 10
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