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SMIJ/1/88
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Letter from Hilary Steuert to James Smith
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- 22 Sept. 1940 (Creation)
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4 single sheets
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(1904-1972)
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Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, near Bath.—Is surprised to learn that Smith is still in England, and hopes that his difficulties will soon disappear. Quotes from his own compilation of prayers ‘for use when oppressed in mind & body’. Discusses types of breviary. Will be happy to help [E. M.] Wilson, as will Father Mark [Pontifex], and would like to meet Moreno [Báez]. He finds Smith’s style easier now and was convinced by his Webster article, but Dom Illtyd feels that elsewhere his arguments, though consistent, are not sufficiently founded in the texts. Has sent Leavis an article by Dom Illtyd expressing the reactions of a scholastic to the philosophical implications of Leavis’s literary position.
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- Steuert, Augustine Hilary (1911-1991), Benedictine monk and literary scholar (Subject)
- Trethowan, Illtyd (1907-1993), Benedictine monk, philosopher, and schoolteacher (Subject)
- Leavis, Frank Raymond (1895-1978), literary critic (Subject)
- Wilson, Edward Meryon (1906-1977), Spanish scholar (Subject)
- Pontifex, Mark (1896–1991), Benedictine monk (Subject)
- Báez, Enrique Moreno (1908–1976), Spanish literary scholar (Subject)