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The correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles
The correspondence of Robert Southey with Caroline Bowles Author:Robert Southey Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Tell me also what you have written (for you must have written other things), and what you think of writing, if you have anything planned. A happy subject may att... more »ract attention, and a word of advice respecting the plan may be worth fifty after it is executed. I wish you may be able also to tell me that your health is improved, and that with it your heart is recovering strength and genial feelings. Believe me, sincerely yours, E. Southey. TO ROBERT SOUTHEY. Buckland, Sept. list, 1818. I thank you most gratefully for your two valuable letters; it will be' my own fault, or rather my misfortune, if the criticisms they contain are not most useful to me, lenient as they are, for you cauterize with a gentle hand. Yes—I have written lots of other things since five years old, I think, or rather composed, for at that mature period my father used to write them for his spoiled child ; and I dare say my miscellaneous works would fill a decent volume, if they had been carefully rescued from the copy-books, drawing-books, and receipt-books, where I was wont to scribble them in all blank pages. Happily most of those sublime effusions have disappeared by degrees: out of the few remaining I venture to enclose one or two (I hardly know for what purpose, for they do not deserve your notice, and you did but ask me " if I had written other things"). I cannot resist my inclination to send you at the same time a little poem which fell into my hands a short time ago ; it appears to me to wear the stamp of no ordinary genius. I have nothing planned, and I have no courage to plan, for my stores of information are so scanty, and I have so little confidence in my own taste and judgment, that I can hardly hope to select any attractive subject. One of your suggesting might perhaps inspire me...« less