Identificatie
referentie code
Add. MS c/100/212
Titel
Letter from Henry Sidgwick to F. W. H. Myers
Datum(s)
- 9 Mar. 1872 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Stuk
Omvang en medium
1 doc
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
(1838-1900)
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
Refers favourably to one of Myers' poems. Discusses its form and content; remarks that there is 'nothing of the "tameness" ' in it that he perceived in Myers' last, and that he seems 'to have dropped the grave mature simplicity [which] Symonds etc admired so much in the last'. Refers to Goethe, whom Myers quotes in the work. Claims not to understand 'the last paragraph before the rhapsody', and states that he has 'jotted down a sort of abstract of the poem up to that point' to show Myers how it puzzles him. Announces that he would be happy to go to Eton for a few days after Easter, and that in Passion Week he intends to be vaccinated 'for the sake of mankind.'