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HOUG/D/E/3/5/5
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Letter from Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, to Lord Houghton
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- 22 Mar. 1872 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Argyll Hall, Torquay. - thanks for remarkable version of Hyperion; this text unquestionably the earlier one, 'emanating from a very different conception'; its ill-judged element of satire and inferior vigour; joins Houghton in admiration of a poet so young who could understand the ultimate benefit of sacrificing individually beautiful elements; will buy a copy for his son, to whom he is constantly preaching with this text as a model.