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HOUG/DD/8/4
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Letter from Edward Fitzgerald to Lord Houghton
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- [Mar. 1881] (Creation)
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3 ff.
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No English poet can honour Calderon with the true sympathy of a compatriot, but an elevated style would convey appropriate feelings: 'No modern Aesthetic & Philosophy of the Wordsworth-Arnold School [will] do for the People, I am sure'. Dryden's Alexander's Feats, 'immeasurably the finest ode in our Language' a suitable model. Why not abandon the competition and instead commission an ode from a master such as Swinburne?; with his talent he could learn enough of Spanish in a month to achieve a complete understanding of the task; open competition will yield very little of value; Swinburne is the very best man for the purpose. Postscript: 'Our old Alfred [Tennyson] has. I think, been out of the Question this long while'.
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- FitzGerald, Edward (1809-1883), writer and translator (Subject)
- Calderón de la Barca, Pedro (1600-1681), Spanish playwright (Subject)
- Wordsworth, William (1770-1850), poet (Subject)
- Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) poet and critic (Subject)
- Dryden, John (1631-1700), poet, playwright, and critic (Subject)
- Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909), poet and literary reviewer (Subject)
- Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892), 1st Baron Tennyson, poet (Subject)