Item 6 - Letter from Robert Bridges to R. C. Trevelyan

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Chilswell, Oxford. - Read "Sisyphus" last night and much enjoyed it; thinks it 'very successful, the farce quite Aristophanic', and found the 'unrhymed method' very pleasing. Was too involved with the drama and humour to pay attention to the metre, so will have to re-read. Thinks Trevelyan has 'got on the right tack', and that the 'sorry foolishness & emptiness' of rhyme would have taken 'the edge of the real fun'; discusses this further. Thinks the farce would 'act well', though he has 'enormous respect' for Aphrodite - adds a footnote quoting in Latin from Lucretius's invocation of Venus in "De Rerum Natura" - and could not put her in a farce on the state. [Logan] Pearsall Smith, who was here yesterday, said how much he had enjoyed "Sisyphus". Bridges thinks it could be 'acted with success at the Universities'.