SD1248. John Kenyon to Anna Brownell Jameson
Published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 12, 371 (in part).
40. York Terrace
March 1: 46
Dear Mrs Jameson
I had tied up the books, to be sent to Oxford Str tomorrow, when it occurred to me that I had said nothing on the subject of your German friend’s letter. Mr John Forster lives at No 58 Lincoln’s Inn fields and I have no doubt would gladly accept and use any thing which you may think worthy of being sent to him.
There are some spirited verses addressed to the New Timon Sir L.H.B.—on dit—in the last Punch– Have you seen them?
I see that you give us nothing in the Athenaeum this week– Surely those American verses on the Raven are of no common merit. It seems to me that there is very considerable poetical feeling in them, with a very musical and artful management of the Rhythm; a merit which as long as we write poetical thoughts in verse & alter those in prose I rate very high. I don’t however assume to be a critic, but—spite of Critics—I do claim a right to admire and to be pleased—and not seldom to be displeased with what other folk are pleased to read & to praise– After all this dogmatism, in praise of humility I will shelter myself from further provoking you in the petty space left me– There is not to be enough quite to lazy me—
JK
Publication: None traced.
Manuscript: Wellesley College.
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