The Letters of Horace Howard Furness - 2 Author:Horace Howard Furness Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Subjects: Literary Collections / Letters Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy th... more »e General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: THE LETTERS OF HORACE HOWARD FURNESS CHAPTER VIII 1898-1901 To W. Aldis Wright Wallingford, 18 January, 1898 My Dear Wright: Ever so many thanks for your "Henry the Fourth." Its introduction is excellent, which is merely of course, inasmuch as it is your work. I do thoroughly like your position in regard to Falstaff and Oldcastle. This recent life of Tennyson ought to give the quietus to all critics who impute to the poet their own meanings and their own feeble methods of work. (What a fascinating book that "Life" of Tennyson is!) I send you by this same post the translation of the Psalms, -- a translation in which I take no jot of pride or pleasure. Woe worth the day when I consented to do no more than what I supposed to be the reading of proof-sheets! I am hampered at every turn until I'd fain cry, "And so come Death!" Drop me a tear of pity an thou lovest me. (There are two or three oversights in the text, due to changing one portion of the expression and overlooking the connection. If you see them, which I hope you won't, shut your eyes.) Canon Cheyne and his wife spent last Saturday to Monday with me. He is one of those simple- hearted, gentle ones who would use the Devil himself with courtesy, which when combined with erudition forms a delightful companion. Let me hear that the New Year is opening to you full of promise of renewed health. (Don't wish the same for me. My life stopped when I was cut to the brains and inmost heart, -- Ay de mi! fifteen years ago.) ...« less