PATER, WALTER. Autograph letter signed ("W.H. Pater") to the poet Roden Noel, Brasenose [College, Oxford], 29 December [1872]. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, a trifle wrinkled, integral second leaf laid down on larger sheet . An early Pater letter written the year before his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) was published. "I have been very busy for many weeks past [probably on the above-mentioned book] and must make many apologies for not having long since acknowledged the 'Red Flag' [Noel's third book, The Red Flag , published in 1872], which you so kindly sent me, much of which however I had read with great pleasure...I am not one of those who think political questions an unfit subject for poetry, a point which I think Swinburne [settled conclusively?] in his article on 'L'annèe terrible'..." Pater devotes a page on commenting on five poems in the book and closes: "...Excuse all this. I should much like some day to accept the kind invitation in a former note of yours..." Not in Letters of Walter Pater (Oxford, 1970) and apparently unpublished. Pater's letters are rare, despite there being five in this and the following two lots.
PATER, WALTER. Autograph letter signed ("W.H. Pater") to the poet Roden Noel, Brasenose [College, Oxford], 29 December [1872]. 2 1/2 pages, 8vo, a trifle wrinkled, integral second leaf laid down on larger sheet . An early Pater letter written the year before his Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873) was published. "I have been very busy for many weeks past [probably on the above-mentioned book] and must make many apologies for not having long since acknowledged the 'Red Flag' [Noel's third book, The Red Flag , published in 1872], which you so kindly sent me, much of which however I had read with great pleasure...I am not one of those who think political questions an unfit subject for poetry, a point which I think Swinburne [settled conclusively?] in his article on 'L'annèe terrible'..." Pater devotes a page on commenting on five poems in the book and closes: "...Excuse all this. I should much like some day to accept the kind invitation in a former note of yours..." Not in Letters of Walter Pater (Oxford, 1970) and apparently unpublished. Pater's letters are rare, despite there being five in this and the following two lots.
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