SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. One autograph letter signed to Canon Richard Watson Dixon, poet and Pre-Raphaelite associate, and one autograph letter signed (both signed "A C Swinburne") to his widow Mrs. Dixon, Brockhampton Park, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, and The Pines, Putney Hill, 25 August 1891 and 16 November 1905. Together 4 pages, 8vo, the first on black-bordered mourning stationery, with original stamped envelopes addressed by Swinburne. In praise of Mano , Dixon's longest poem, first published in 1883. 25 August 1891 (to Dixon): "I am sincerely gratified by your very kind estimate of my brief & inadequate remarks on your noble poem. I only wish they were worthier of the place of honour you design for them...I hope it will not be supposed that the metrical triumph is what I most admire in Mano , & not rather the powerful interest & enthralling force of romantic or tragic imagination which fascinated my attention at every stage of the poetic narrative by its great & singular quality of bringing the most remote things close & making the most superhuman things actual to the fancy or rather (while reading) to the faith of the reader. In the attainment of that highest aim & hardest triumph the poem seems to me unsurpassed -- to say the very least -- by any contemporary work with which it could properly or indeed possibly be compared." 16 November 1905 (to Mrs. Dixon; the Canon died in 1900): "I have been unable to thank you earlier for your kind & valued present, but you must not think me ungrateful. I need not assure you that the author of Mano never had a sincere & more cordial admirer than Yours very gratefully A C Swinburne."
SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES. One autograph letter signed to Canon Richard Watson Dixon, poet and Pre-Raphaelite associate, and one autograph letter signed (both signed "A C Swinburne") to his widow Mrs. Dixon, Brockhampton Park, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, and The Pines, Putney Hill, 25 August 1891 and 16 November 1905. Together 4 pages, 8vo, the first on black-bordered mourning stationery, with original stamped envelopes addressed by Swinburne. In praise of Mano , Dixon's longest poem, first published in 1883. 25 August 1891 (to Dixon): "I am sincerely gratified by your very kind estimate of my brief & inadequate remarks on your noble poem. I only wish they were worthier of the place of honour you design for them...I hope it will not be supposed that the metrical triumph is what I most admire in Mano , & not rather the powerful interest & enthralling force of romantic or tragic imagination which fascinated my attention at every stage of the poetic narrative by its great & singular quality of bringing the most remote things close & making the most superhuman things actual to the fancy or rather (while reading) to the faith of the reader. In the attainment of that highest aim & hardest triumph the poem seems to me unsurpassed -- to say the very least -- by any contemporary work with which it could properly or indeed possibly be compared." 16 November 1905 (to Mrs. Dixon; the Canon died in 1900): "I have been unable to thank you earlier for your kind & valued present, but you must not think me ungrateful. I need not assure you that the author of Mano never had a sincere & more cordial admirer than Yours very gratefully A C Swinburne."
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