KINGSLEY (Charles, 1819-1875, Novelist, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, 1860-1869)

Unsigned Autograph postscript, not signed, asking to be allowed "one word more? I should earnestly warn him against those anapestic metres", the next sentence is written with the metre displayed "I love / to gaze / on the trackless deep /", continuing "which in our language must by filled up with iambic instead of spondees, and so go lilting on three legs, like a yankee trotting mare, to the destruction of all grace & dignity. The small ... of the day all affect them - pray save him from the infection, & keep hin to iambs, dactyls, & above all to trockees ...", 1 side 8vo., no place, no date

The line he is quoting is apparently from a poem called "Things that I love" by Richard REALF (1832-1878, Poet who travelled widely and committed suicide after an unhappy marriage and imperfect divorce).

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