' I wish I had seen S.T. [Sybil Thorndike] in "Gruach" — I read it and thought it so fine. And I like all your talk about plays like Mr Pepys.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell Print: playscript
‘Your Georgian B. has arrived at last; many many thanks. I pounced on King
Lear’s Wife, and though it was not more than I expected, it was not less.
The only fault I can find is the diction. It has the aspect of talking to
children, in some places. Goneril is marvellously drawn. Lear is a bit
shadowy, perhaps, but altogether as a poetic drama, it is of the very
highest kind … Rupert Brooke’s poem on Clouds is marvellous; his style
offends me; it is gaudy and reminiscent … I also received your packet of
papers which I’ve had no time yet to look into.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Rosenberg Print: Book
‘Your Lucretius arrived in all its beauty of type and cover. It is a noble poem
and I wish it were printed in a more compressed form so that one could
have it in the pocket and read it more. It does now sound like a translation
the words seem so natural to the thought … I can say no more than that I
got deep pleasure from it and thank you very much. I’m reading some
Shakespeare—Sturge Moore, G. Bottomley H. G. Wells—Sturge Moore
delights me—they are only small things I mean as number of words go,—
but he is after my own heart. You know what I think of G. B. And that old
hawker of immortality how glad one feels, he is not a witness of these
terrible times—he would only have been flung into this terrible destruction,
like the rest of us. Anyway we all hope it’ll all end well.’
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Rosenberg Print: Book
