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Letter from Wacław Borowy written 16.02.1939

Author Wacław Borowy
Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers
Archive Ingarden Family archives
Date of creation 16.12.1939
Reference code in archive ARI
Copyrights all rights reserved
Resource type letter
Subject matter academic issues, publication issues
Field aesthetics, literary criticism, literature, philosophy
Tags #Alfred de Vigny, #article, #article about Kridl, #bibliographic information, #books exchange, #composition, #context, #Emmanuel Lochac, #gnomic sentences, #Herman and Dorota, #Heroides, #Joachim Du Bellay, #Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, #La Mort du Loup, #lacrimae rerum, #Latin quotes, #literary works, #literature, #Manfred Kridl, #Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński?, #monostiches, #Ovid, #quotes, #sonnets, #The Effects of Music, #truth in literary works, #University Library, #Virgil, #Wacław Borowy, #William Shakespeare

Warsaw, Św. Barbary St. 10
16.II.1939

 

       n             Dear Mr. Roman!
       n             I am at your disposal, all the more eagerly, since it was only in the final stage of writing the article on Kridl that I decided to remove most of the bibliographical information. So, on page 183, the Latin quote is Ovid’s Heroides IV 29 (Phaedra Hippolyto); the French one is the beginning of Joachim Du Bellay’s sonnet, very popular in many anthologies; then follows Szarzyński, after that a poem from Shakespeare’s sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true mind); the German poem comes from the preface from Hermann and Dorothea. On page 181, I am quoting Virgil (Aen. I 462) and Alfred de Vigny (the last part of La Mort du Loup).
       n             I heard that you were also going to write about Kridl. Have you persisted in this intention?
       n             Bows, greetings and true respect

W.Borowy

P.S. I have not carefully read your Polish work so far, I do not know that I will be able do it soon, since I will be busy with other things for a longer while. Only now have I found out that I had mistakenly written down your address. I wonder if the book (The Effects of Music) I sent to you at this wrong address – almost a year ago – ever reached you.