Item 11 - Notebook with various prose pieces

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TRER/29/11

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Notebook with various prose pieces

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  • 1880s-1912? (Creation)

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1 notebook with red cover (detached), 13 ff.

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Trevelyan, Robert Calverley (1872-1951), poet, dramatist, and translator
(1872-1951)

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Trinity College Library, Cambridge

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Story (incomplete) about a dream in which the narrator encounters angels fishing in the river of Time: the fish are the wishes of humans and animals; story (incomplete) about a dream in which the narrator is a fish in the river of Time or Life, and is fished out by Heraclitus and Democritus. The two philosophers are with another man 'in modern dress'.

Exercise book used from other end in for: essay about poetic inspiration, with numerous references to and quotations from writers such as Milton, Plato and Shelley on the subject; essay on pleasure.

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