BIB_ID
430644
Accession number
MA 1617.98
Creator
Brown, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1830-1897.
Display Date
Bristol, England, 1891 October 27.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.7 x 11.4 cm
Notes
This letter is one of a collection of thirty-three letters (MA 1617.75 - MA 1617.107) from T. E. Brown to W. E. Henley written between November 6, 1872 and September 28,1897.
Provenance
Purchased as the gift of Edwin J. Beinecke, 1955.
Summary
Saying "Rec'd Lyra Heroica. A delightful book. Patriotism is the bass of your theme. Some of the pieces are rather remote therefrom...But Patriotism is a chord that has many and subtle anharmonics. I believe I could make a case out for every number. More formidable is the enormous disproportion of Macauley and Longfellow, the former not a poet at all, though a fine and vigorous rhetorician....I could have wished to see of Shakespeare the unparalleled outburst in Rich. II. Hen V. is not in it, and the Chorus bits are surely stupid. But the book is altogether quite splendid and is sure to be popular. Who is Walter Blaikie?...By the bye, W. Morris rather palls upon me : but never mind : the dolphin will rear that Arion, so let him take a seat. Let no man say 'Jingo'! You have woven it so well, and of thread so fine and purple, that it stands unique, and cannot be impeached."
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