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“I started in the dark on foot, with a revolver, and my spurs on my bare feet”

Posted on January 19, 2024 by mafalda

Sidney Colvin had written to RLS on 21 March 1894: ‘Do these things interest you at all: or do any of our white affair? I could remark in passing that for three letters or more you have not uttered a … Continue reading →

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“Your traduction winks at me with a yellow back as I sit writing”

Posted on March 20, 2021 by mafalda

[For correct and critical edition of this letter, see Mehew 7, 2329.] To Berthe M. Low [W.H. Low, A Chronicle of Friendships, 1908, pp.433-4] June 19, 1891, Vailima. My dear Traducer, In all things it seems you have done very … 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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I have been all yesterday evening and this forenoon in Italy, four hundred years ago

Posted on June 26, 2014 by mafalda

Clarice Campobello Sinico (b. 1840), Italian soprano, sang Beethoven’s aria op. 65 ‘Ah perfido spergiuro!’ (text by Metastasio) at the Edinburgh Choral Union’s concert on 4 January 1875. The Portfolio article here mentioned is An Autumn Effect (publ. April 1875). … Continue reading →

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Winter seen from the inside of a warm greatcoat

Posted on June 23, 2014 by mafalda

The ‘Buckinghamshire affair’ refers to RLS’s essay ‘An Autumn Effect’, published in the Portfolio, April and May 1875. Maurice de Guérin (1810-1839) was a French poet and mystic who won recognition after his death with the publication of his Journal … Continue reading →

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