the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Robert Trevelyan : Epistle

Leonard Woolf to Robert Trevelyan, 8 January 1941: 'I want to say how much we enjoyed your Epistle. In these days of confused bitterness its form and content were both refreshing. Your translations and the two conversations were equally or even more refreshing. By a curious coincidence I had been reading Horace's satires after an interval of I don't know how many years. I never read the classics except in bed before I get up in the morning and I nearly always read Greek. But the other day I thought I would begin Horace again and began the Satires. I liked it better than I had expected for I had recollections of being bored by Horace's hexameters. Your translations are extraordinarily satisfactory and satisfying.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard and Virginia Woolf     Print: Book

Robert Trevelyan : Translations from Lucretius

E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 29 January 1918: 'Lucretius has come -- I like him very much.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      Manuscript: Unknown

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E. M. Forster to Robert Trevelyan, 23 August 1918: 'Thank you for your poem on Confuscius [sic]. It amused me very much.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Edward Morgan Forster      

Robert Calverley Trevelyan : [plays]

‘I rec your play and Annual. Thank you very much. The play is gorgeous, one of the chiefest pleasures of my leave days; and for this I thank you indeed. The ideas are exactly what we all think out here—and the court martial of the Kaiser and kings etc might have been copied from one of ours … I have not had a chance of looking at the Annual yet but will do so before I go back.’

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Isaac Rosenberg      Print: Book

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