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HOUG/D/B/5/19
Title
Letter from George John Cayley to Richard Monckton Milnes
Date(s)
- 11 Feb. 1851 (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Scope and content
Pickering's Shop. - Came to Pickering's to check the metre of In Memoriam against Sidney; quotes Arcadia. Tennyson probably based metre on old sonnet form; quotes sonnet and discusses problems in construction. 'Sydney [sic] was the most determined & ingenious & enterprising rhymester I have met with...'