Autograph letters signed from William Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, Westmorland, to various people [manuscript], 1816-1840.
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Autograph letters signed from William Wordsworth, Rydal Mount, Westmorland, to various people [manuscript], 1816-1840.
Description
2 items.
Summary
In both letters Wordsworth declines to take part in the proposed celebrations honouring Shakespeare. In (1), to Nicholas L. Torré, dated July 21, 1840, he writes disparagingly of the general lack of support for Sergeant Talfourd's Copyright Bill. Literature stands much less in need of monuments to the dead than in justice to the living. (2), to an organizer of the Shakespeare Festival of 1816 and dated March 18, 1816, expresses his inability to write verses on demand.
Publications about material
"The pen's excellencie" : treasures from the manuscript collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library / compiled and edited by Heather Wolfe. Seattle : Distributed by University of Washington Press, 2002, p. 179-180.
Exhibited
Y.c.1455 (1) Exhibited: "The Pen's Excellencie" : Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library, curated by Heather Wolfe, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., February 6- June 8, 2002.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- Westmorland.
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Y.c.1455 (1-2)
Folger accession
cs482, 795