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Letter from Aubrey de Vere, Curragh Chase, to William Angus Knight, 1884 November 27 : autograph manuscript signed.

BIB_ID
190559
Accession number
MA 22706.16
Creator
De Vere, Aubrey, 1814-1902.
Display Date
Adare, Ireland, 1884 November 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.3 cm
Notes
From the collection of William Angus Knight.
Written from "Curragh Chase, / Adare."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from William Angus Knight, 1908.
Summary
Thanking him for the copies of the Transactions of the Wordsworth Society; mentioning, in particular, the letters from Wordsworth to Landor on the relationship between Poetry and Religion; regretting that Knight's publisher did not take up his offer [to publish De Vere's collection of three essays on Wordsworth]; , mentioning sonnets he wrote on Wordsworth and promising to send them, and discussing these and other poems; included with this letter are notes by De Vere on the following poems: "On the Power of Sound," "The Triad," "The Wishing Gate," "To a Skylark," and "Scorn Not the Sonnet."