FORTHRIGHT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TWICE ('TEShaw' and 'TES'), revealing his knowledge of modern poetry and poets, to the editor of the Observer, James Louis Garvin (1868-1947), later editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, telling him that he has 'been stung to horror by an article in the Observer today and must ejaculate -- or burst', specifically because of an article by Basil de Selincourt on modern poetry in which he stated that Day Lewis was a name new to him; Lawrence remonstrates with Garvin for allowing such ignorance in one of his staff, whom he supposes is 'some hoary old toad immured deep in a rotting tree' and recommends that like Gosse de Selincourt should write 'out of his clouds of memory about such mummies as Hannah More or Ronsard' ('...Ignorance about the vasty past is inevitable, excusable, praiseworthy almost: but to make a fool of oneself about the poets of the yesterday through which one has supposed "lived" -- Pshaw and Tush to him. Dead for a ducat...'); as a 'Horrid after thought' Lawrence supposes it possible that de Selincourt is really the Observer's cricket correspondent having a day out ('Put him back into flannels, please QUICK') and ends by stating that only rarely can he afford two pence for a newspaper, but since he often assures people that the Observer is all right, he emphasises that he has had a shock, 4 pages, quarto, 13 Birmingham Street, Southampton, 15 July 1934
FORTHRIGHT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TWICE ('TEShaw' and 'TES'), revealing his knowledge of modern poetry and poets, to the editor of the Observer, James Louis Garvin (1868-1947), later editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, telling him that he has 'been stung to horror by an article in the Observer today and must ejaculate -- or burst', specifically because of an article by Basil de Selincourt on modern poetry in which he stated that Day Lewis was a name new to him; Lawrence remonstrates with Garvin for allowing such ignorance in one of his staff, whom he supposes is 'some hoary old toad immured deep in a rotting tree' and recommends that like Gosse de Selincourt should write 'out of his clouds of memory about such mummies as Hannah More or Ronsard' ('...Ignorance about the vasty past is inevitable, excusable, praiseworthy almost: but to make a fool of oneself about the poets of the yesterday through which one has supposed "lived" -- Pshaw and Tush to him. Dead for a ducat...'); as a 'Horrid after thought' Lawrence supposes it possible that de Selincourt is really the Observer's cricket correspondent having a day out ('Put him back into flannels, please QUICK') and ends by stating that only rarely can he afford two pence for a newspaper, but since he often assures people that the Observer is all right, he emphasises that he has had a shock, 4 pages, quarto, 13 Birmingham Street, Southampton, 15 July 1934
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