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Second Thoughts On Rossetti: Tennyson’S Revised Letter Of October 12, 1882, Terry L. Meyers
Second Thoughts On Rossetti: Tennyson’S Revised Letter Of October 12, 1882, Terry L. Meyers
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"Although Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. include in The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson the incomplete draft of a letter Tennyson prepared to send William Sharp (1855-1905), the writer, poet, and friend and biographer of D. G. Rossetti, they overlook a printing of the letter as actually sent, after Tennyson revised it significantly..."
Two Poems By Swinburne: ‘Milton’ And On Wagner’S Music, Terry L. Meyers
Two Poems By Swinburne: ‘Milton’ And On Wagner’S Music, Terry L. Meyers
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"In working on an edition of Swinburne's correspondence, I have in the last several years discovered two previously unknown poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. One has existed for decades in the British Library's Ashley Collection, unrecognized probably because it survives in the form of a copy not in Swinburne's hand. The other, a signed holograph which I bought from a bookseller in Texas, has a provenance that is unknown. Swinburne appears to have wanted to publish both, though circumstances in each case made that infeasible..."
Swinburne’S Copyright: Gone Missing, Terry L. Meyers
Swinburne’S Copyright: Gone Missing, Terry L. Meyers
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"For seventy-six years William Heinemann Ltd. has controlled Swinburne's copyright. Now the firm has abandoned it. Given the uncertainty that results, any other claimant should step forward..."
Swinburne Shapes His Grand Passion: A Version By ‘Ashford Owen.’, Terry L. Meyers
Swinburne Shapes His Grand Passion: A Version By ‘Ashford Owen.’, Terry L. Meyers
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"That a blighted love lies at the heart of many of Swinburne's works has long impelled scholars and biographers to search for details as to the who, the where, and the when of the affair. The first candidate was nomi- nated by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise and was supposed to be a young miss, a Jane "Boo" Faulkner. Her candidacy, however, withered under the scrutiny of John Mayfield and Cecil Y. Lang, and a substitute was found: the poet's first cousin Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon Leith (1840-1926), a writer who married a military man, Col. Robert William Disney …