Sir Arthur Grimble

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Sir Arthur Grimble

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Oceanic literature
The role of the author
…Return to the Islands (1957), Sir Arthur Grimble vividly relates how oral poems were composed in Kiribati. He describes the first stirring of poetry as a “divine spark of inspiration,” which gives the poet his mana. This mana, in turn, causes the poet to remove himself from society into his…
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…Return to the Islands (1957), Sir Arthur Grimble vividly relates how oral poems were composed in Kiribati. He describes the first stirring of poetry as a “divine spark of inspiration,” which gives the poet his mana. This mana, in turn, causes the poet to remove himself from society into his…
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