Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883)

Mrs.

u have only just answered-you who will answer! I wish you would consider this Letter of mine an Answer (as

éranger, no doubt, was The Artist; which still is not the highest Genius-witness Shakespeare, Dante, ?schylus, Calderon, to the contrary. Burns assuredly had more Passion than the Frenchman; which is not Genius either, but a great Part of the Lyric Poet still. What Béranger might have been, if born and bred among Banks, Braes, and Mountains, I cannot tell: Burns had that advantage over

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red Rose has burned itself into one's silly Soul in spite of all. Do you know that one of Burns' few almost perfect stanzas was perf

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things which my last Quot

en he was one day by Doon-side-'I can't tell how it was, Fitz, but I fell

sband or Child. She talked of her Loss and Sorrow with some Resignation; till the Coach happened to pull up by a roadside Inn. A 'little Bird' was singing somewhere; the poor Woman then

I am afraid he partly led the way. Burns' very Passion half excused him; so far

sermon of half its Dulness. And I am now going to transcribe you a Vau-de-vire of old Olivier de Basselin, [23a] which will show you something of that which I miss in Béranger. But I thi

he Fly-leaf: being too long,

, I suppose, somewhat shorn of its Glory.-If you were not so sincere I should think you were persiflaging me about the Photo, as applied to myself, and yourself. Some years ago I said

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