Buy this book on-line MOORE, Thomas Sturge (1870-1944) : A Fine and Important One Page Autograph Letter to M.A. BAYFIELD, Signed and Dated 28.5.1918
An interesting and important letter. Moore thanks Bayfield for his pamphlet "Our Traditional Prosody" "My personal feeling is that the need is for a new nomenclature. Trochees, anapaests dactyls and iambs are mere fictions as applied to English........If the units of English verse could be given names of their own and not share that of a latin or greek ghost . All difficulty would I believe disappear". A follow-up letter to Bayfield, dealing with English prosody, undated (Attributed to 1919, but in the light of this letter probably 1918), was sold at Bonhams, 29 Mar 2011 London, New Bond Street Papers & Portraits: The Roy Davids Collection Part II LOT 173, and realised GBP660 including premium. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of MOORE, Thomas Sturge (1870-1944) : A Fine and Important One Page Autograph Letter to M.A. BAYFIELD, Signed and Dated 28.5.1918. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri antichi, incunabula, livres illustrées, collectables and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |