Autograph letters signed from Arthur Henry Hallam, Stirlingshire and Great Malvern, to John Frere [manuscript], [1829] Summer.

Autograph letters signed from Arthur Henry Hallam, Stirlingshire and Great Malvern, to John Frere [manuscript], [1829] Summer.

2 items.

(1) discusses Milnes, whom he believes will become a poet and mentions that Tennyson was the first "to plant the banner of Alastor on the walls of our University." Included is a poem inspired by the beauty of nature, printed in The remains...of Arthur Henry Hallam, 1834. (2) states that Shakespeare was the greatest nature poet and Dante the second; and Bacon the "Shakespeare of Philosophers." He also discusses the poetic style of Wordsworth and Shelley. Included is a song on Scotland.

Poem and song listed in Folger card index of first lines. First line: I saw a child upon a Highland moor. First line: The Clydesdale! The Clydesdale!

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Great Britain -- Scotland -- Stirlingshire.
Great Britain -- England -- Great Malvern.

Y.c.1160 (1-2)

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