“Every morning like this I take my hat off to the beauty of the world.” — William Sharp | V2Melody

“Every morning like this I take my hat off to the beauty of the world.”

A Highland habit of reverence he made his own by retelling · Recalled words of Seumas Macleod, the old fisherman he loved to quote

About William Sharp

William Sharp

12 September 1855–12 December 1905

William Sharp was born on 12 September 1855 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, at a time when Scotland’s industrial towns were expanding rapidly but remained surrounded, in memory and imagination, by older rural worlds. He would become one of the most energetic and versatile literary figures of the late Victorian period: a…

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“London, I do not like, though I feel its magnetic charm, or sorcery. I suffer here.”

The city as a spell that still starves thought and dream · Letter, January 1895

“A group of intimate letters will probably give us more insight into the inner nature of a man than any number of hypothetical pros and cons on the part of a biographer.”

Why he trusted letters over formal lives · Quoted by Elizabeth Sharp as his own words

“The genesis of Fiona Macleod was no literary adventure, but a deep spiritual impulse.”

Insisting the second name was vocation, not a trick · Letter to Alexander Hood