xt7qjq0stw34_3821 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center.  Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection John Addington Symonds letter to [Arthur Henry] Bullen text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. John Addington Symonds letter to [Arthur Henry] Bullen 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_37/Folder_74/Multipage13059.pdf 1884 April 23 1884 1884 April 23 
  Scope and Contents
  Peal accession no. 10583d. Includes a transcript and a summary of the letter.
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 Villa Enily
San Remo
April 23,1881;

Dear Mr. Bullen

Many thanks for your quick reply to my letter
8: for the stanza you have sent me from that
Latin poem. It is clear to my mind that

Quid miki sugis vivum sanguinem
is the first line of a missing stanza, all the
others in the song being of four lines. And it is
pity that it should be lost; for something is
needed to explain the transition from panda
etc to cende etc. I will send you an"impressional"
version I have made in English, wh. I have
audaciously modelled upon Fletcher's (or
Shakespere's) "Take a take those lips away."
Somehow or-another, I have a dim feeling
that whoever wrote that song had seen the
Latin.
Hide 0 hide those hills of snow
Tny frozen bosom heap

That rings rather like

Cende papillae quae me sauciant

Ca[ ] et lust [ ] miki pectoris.

Do you think this is nonsense? If there is any
sense in my instinct, it is rather a proof that
Fletﬁher and not Shakespere - wrote the Englihh-
or possibly Beaumont who was a fine scholar.

We had traces in Elizn. lit. (that the Caruima

[ ] ana were not unknown to our poets of that
time. Thomas Ingeland translated a grave song
on the Men of Past Years; & an anonymous author
made a very pretty version of Phyllis & Flora,
wh. Wright has published at the end of his Poems
of Walter Mapes.

 

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A great trouble has fallen on me here. One of my
daughters, who came with me from Davos, caught
Typhoid fever on the journey. The hotel-keeper
begged me to remove her from his house. I had in
the course of a single day to engage a huge empty
villa, furnish it with necessary furniture, & get
servants. Here I am installed with my wife,

‘Ihe invalid, a sick nurse, & two Italian maids.

I am always an bout de mes forces at the best
of times. So this scrimmage hasreduded me below
zero. And one never knows with typhoid how long
the thing may last.

Please assure Mr. Lee that I am very far from
taking his review of my book in bad part. I thought it
a decidedly able & conscientious article, 8:.
perceived that it was written by someone who had
full knowledge of the subject. Ihat it dwelt some-
what more than an author likes upon the shortcomings
of my work,did not surprise me. The Athenaeum has
nver been very favourable to my literature -
perhaps because I belong prominently (did belong)

to the opposite shop, The Academy 1 And the review
Only pointed out what it was wholesome for me to
know, especially with regard to my too sweeping
remarks on English society in the 16th Century.
Those remarks need modification. They were made
when I was much younger & less careful than I

hope years have made me - & they ought not to have
been [ My reproduced in a work of my maturity.

I think Mr. Lee is a friend of my nephew St. Loe
Strachey, & also of another great friend of mine

H.R. Brown. Have you happened to see the latter's book:
"Life on the Lagoons"? It is not much in your line
perhaps. But it is very good as a detailed picture

of a remote 8c characteristic set of people the
Venetian gondoliers, & promising as the first work

of a young writer.-

I am honoured by what you say about Animi Figure,

 

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for I had confidence in your candour. I did

not want any remarks - I only wanted you.to have
the book - but I am none the less pleased that
you should have told me what you think about it.

The book is defective. Between Intellectual
Isolation and Self Condemnation a whole section'
is missing, wh. describes an unfortunate love -
affair of the hero 3 This is called

Stella Maris, a Venetian episode. I am going to
print it priVately, &‘I will send you a copy if
I do. Sooner or later, I hope to incorporate it
in Anrni Figure. Did you not feel that the
transition from Intellectual Isolation to
Self-Condemnation was undnotivist?

With regard to Sonnets. I have always felt that
their weakness wasthat the form (far from being
difficult) is too easily mastered up to a certain
point. And the form in addition to its facility,
is so fixed, so obvious as form, that it lends
itself to feeble utterance. Thus it tends to
that greatest stupidity in verse: pompous parade
& complicated verbage.

All the same, ever since I translated Michael
Angelo's & Campanella‘s sonnets during a bad
illness, I hve felt a~partiality for the stanza.
I like the mingling of emotion & meditation,

the possibilities of discussion also, to wh. it
offers sc0pe.

My work on The Carnima Vagarum occupies my long
sad leisure here. It is rather funny to spend one's
time between watching a sick daughter, & tuning thOSe
free Pagan medieval songs to English cadences I
The audacity of some of the, their animalistic.
nudity, is likely to shock a virtuous public. The
Spectator will lift its hands in pious wonder that
anyone who is of an age to be "thouﬂhtful", should have
wanted so much time & trouble on such things. The
fact is that I have wasted no trouble. work of this
sort is the idlest of pastimes.

Ever yours

J 0A. Sym-Ol'lds

 

 SYMONDS, John Addington (18ho—1893).
Author and critic. San Remo

AoL. S. to Arthur Henry Bullen, 1857-1920)
23 Apr. 188h. 8 p. (two double sheets,
octavo.)

A long letter telling of his daughter's
illness & of his current work. He mentions
his book of sonnets, Animi Figure (1882),
and his translation of Goliardie songs,

Winez Women and Song (1881;)