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“The author is not the whore, but the libertine”

Posted on September 25, 2023 by mafalda

[Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Le Gallien. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 8, 2676.] To Richard Le Gallienne [Le Gallienne, The Romantic ‘90s, 1925, pp. 106-09] Vailima, Samoa December 28th, 1893. … Continue reading →

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“I hear people talking, and I feel them acting, and that seems to me to be fiction”

Posted on August 30, 2023 by mafalda

[As usual, for correct and critical edition of this letters, see Mehew 8, 2658.] To Henry James [Colvin 1911, 4, pp. 270-1] [Vailima, c. 5 December 1893] My dear Henry James, The mail has come upon me like an armed … Continue reading →

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The marks of a reader, such as one imagines for oneself in dreams, thoughtful, critical, and kind

Posted on September 25, 2016 by mafalda

An anonymous review of the Child’s Garden of Verses, appearing in the Pall Mall Gazette for March 1885, gave RLS so much pleasure that he wrote (in the four words, ‘Now who are you?’) to inquire the name of its … Continue reading →

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One folly I have not – I am not touchy under criticism

Posted on July 8, 2015 by mafalda

The references in the first paragraph are to the volume Familiar Studies of Men and Books. [Dots between square brackets indicate cuts made by Sidney Colvin. For full, correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 3, 940.] To … Continue reading →

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The future is thick with inky fingers

Posted on August 19, 2014 by mafalda

The Burns herein mentioned is the article undertaken for the Encyclopædia Britannica. In the end RLS’s work was thought to convey a view of the poet too frankly critical, and too little in accordance with the accepted Scotch tradition: the … Continue reading →

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