BIB_ID
419400
Accession number
MA 4706.7
Creator
De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956.
Display Date
London, England, 1952 February 5.
Credit line
Purchased, 1991.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 8.9 x 11.4 cm
Notes
Written from "S. E. House / Montpelier Row."
The Introduction to which De la Mare refers is Sassoon's Foreword to "Sport from Within" by Frank Atherton Brown published in 1952.
The Introduction to which De la Mare refers is Sassoon's Foreword to "Sport from Within" by Frank Atherton Brown published in 1952.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon Ray Fund, 1991.
Summary
Praising his Introduction and making several suggestions; asking about the inspiration for his poems in "Emblems of Experience" (1951); saying "This is only a scrap to tell you how much & how admiringly have enjoyed your Introduction. I don't think (speaking not as an expert regarding its theme - if only I were) it c'd be bettered. Nor does it show, any symptom of strain or trouble;" suggesting some minor edits; commenting on Sassoon's most recently published poetry; saying "Barnes in his dialect has been all but my lifelong joy. I was keenly interested in your saying that most of your poems in E. of E. were 'addressed to no one'. [? a kind of 2nd self, or guardian angel, or pre-natal listener.] The modernist autocracy will have been empty voices long after R.H. & Lascelles A.[bercrombie] & others are assured of perenniality. Old words : - I once attempted to translate a Times leader in to vocabulary of the A.V. - & gave it up in the 2nd paragraph."
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