Paul Hamilton Hayne, Augusta, Georgia, to Edward Spencer, 1872

Extent:
6 p.
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[Thanks him for criticism of his poems in Legends and Lyrics; finds the criticism stimulating; wishes him to become his "Father Confessor"; disagrees with editor from Atlantic Monthlyin regard to the poem; feels some of his own poetry mirrors Dryden, Marlowe, Keats, and Morris; gives criticism of Spencer's " A Bow and an Arrow"; mentions William Hand Browne's urging him to take the initiative in a Southern Literary Guildwhich he gladly will, out of respect for Browne; discusses possibilities for the guild; hopes to bring out another book of poems.]

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