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Add. MS c/100/229
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Verse, entitled 'The Modern Ulysses'
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- [Apr 1872?] (Creation)
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(1838-1900)
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A parody of Tennyson's Ulysses, beginning 'It little profits than an idle coach / In these grey walls, amid these dreary flats...'
Contains the lines: 'This is my PEARSON....To him I leave my pupils and my books: Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfil. His toil, by Arts ingenious to make mild The ragged student, and thro' SAFE DEGREES To thrust him...'
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ADD.MS.c/100/228: letter, 21 Apr 1872, from Sidgwick to F.W. H. Myers, with which this parody may well have been sent.
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Part transcription in Sidgwick, Arthur, and Sidgwick, E. M, 'Henry Sidgwick'. London: Macmillan, 1906, p 262-263.