| Selected Letters |
Letter
from G.F. Watts to J.M. Cameron, undated, assessing her recent
photographs and Tennyson's recent poems. |
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My dear Mrs
Cameron,
see what a correspondent I am become! Thanks for the last Photographs,
pray don't think it necessary to send me mounted ones, your Madonna
should not be turned into a French pose plastique woman! Those
of Tennyson are near being very good indeed but are not so fine
as what you did of me, I have at last seen the new poems, I think
the northern farmer beyond all praise! I feel in it Shakepeare's
large grasp of Nature, it conveys to my mind the birth, heritage,
education, life & death of a whole community of rustics,
nothing can be better or more complete. Enoch Arden I confess
does not impress me so much, it is tender & beautiful, but
I feel almost as if I could have written it myself; & that
the simple Grace of the story would have been as touching told
in the barest manner, but this seems |
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