“Shelley was innocent of such sins and poor Keats never heard of them.”

His criticism gives way to warm admiration for Shelley and Keats · Autobiographical letter to Lewis Chase, 6 June 1917

• Criticism
• Influence
• Poetry

“My mother apprenticed me to a Dublin grocer and sent me off one Spring morning with many tears and blessings and nothing of anything else.”

Recalls leaving home with affection but almost no material resources · Autobiographical letter to Lewis Chase, 6 June 1917

• Home
• Motherhood
• Youth

“Georgian Poetry, with my three excluded, contains, I think, the best poems of the century.”

Offers both generous praise of his contemporaries and a modest aside about himself · Autobiographical letter to Lewis Chase, 6 June 1917

• Criticism
• Humility
• Poetry