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Byron to Scott, from 8 St James’s Street London, July 6th 1812
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Byron to Scott, from 8 St James’s Street London, July 6th 1812:
(Source: text from NLS 3883; LJ II 131-5; BLJ II 182-3) Byron replies to Scott at once. St. James’s Street. July sixth 1812. Sir, I have just been honoured with your letter. – I feel sorry that you should have thought it worth while to notice the “evil works of my nonage” as the thing is suppressed voluntarily, & your explanation is too kind not to give me pain. – The satire was written when I was very young & very angry, & fully bent on displaying my wrath & my wit, & now I am haunted by the ghosts of my wholesale Assertions. – I cannot sufficiently thank you for your praise and now waving myself, let me talk to you of the Prince R t . 1:2 He ordered me to be presented to him at a ball, & after some sayings peculiarly pleasing from royal lips, as to my own attempts, he talked to me of you & your immortalities; he preferred you to every bard past & present, & asked which of your works pleased me most, it was a difficult question. – I answered, I thought the “Lay” he said his own opinion was nearly similar; in speaking of the others I told him that I thought you more particularly the poet of Princes, as they never appeared more fascinating than in Marmion & the Lady of the Lake, he 13: Juv. Sat. VII, 82-7 (“… if he does not sell his [virgin] Agave to Paris”). 14: See CHP I 20, 4, where the Portuguese is in fact Nossa Señora de Pena. 1:3 was pleased to coincide & to dwell on poetical. – He spoke alternately of Homer & yourself & seemed well acquainted with both, so that (with the exception of the Turks & your humble servant) you were in very good company. – I defy Murray to have exaggerated his R. H.’s opinion of your powers, nor can I pretend to enumerate all he said on the subject, but it may give you pleasure to hear that it was conveyed in language which would only suffer by my attempting to transcribe it, & with a tone & taste which gave me a very high idea of his abilities & 1:4 accomplishments, which I had hitherto considered as confined to manners, certainly superior to those of any living gentleman. – – This interview was accidental; – I never went to the levee, for having seen the courts of Mussulman & Catholic sovereigns, 15 my curiosity was sufficiently allayed, & my politics being as perverse as my rhymes, I had in fact “no business there.” – – – To be thus praised by your Sovereign must be gratifying to you & if that gratification is not allayed by the communication being made through me, the bearer of it will consider himself very fortunately & sincerely, y r . obliged & obed t . Ser t Byron. P.S. Excuse this scrawl scratched in a great hurry and just after a journey. 16 – Download 1.07 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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