A Guide to the Edgar Fawcett Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 6984-o
University of Virginia Library
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.
Preferred Citation
Edgar Fawcett Collection, Accession 6984-o, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library
Acquisition Information
Purchase 1996 October 8
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Bliss Carmen
- Edgar Fawcett
- H. Ingalls Kimball
- Herbert S. Stone
Item Listing
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Edgar Fawcett , on Union Club stationery, New York , to Bliss Carmen[1894] Aug 18ALS, 16 p.
[Fawcett writes a long letter to the young Canadian poet, full of literary advice, at the beginning of Carmen's career when he was assisting Herbert S. Stone and H. Ingalls Kimball in editing their magazine The Chap-Book , discussing his annoyance with Stone's rejection of his own verses and his impression of Carmen's poetry. Fawcett writes, "You have, I think, a most remarkable poetic future before you in this hatefully unpoetic age. But I somehow feel you will win more of the lovers whom your unique lyric poignancy and fascination are sure to win, if you avoid the vague, the ambiguous a little more determinedly than you are now sometimes doing. ... You are a kind of sea-gull of song, and like that strong white bird your genius floats fearlessly out into mists and vapors....Why not take that Atlantic poem -a superb piece of original lyricism -and model your future work after its combined dreaminess and lucidity."]