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Nile Kinnick correspondence, March-October 1943
1943-04-05: Page 01
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Wednesday April 5, 1943 Dear Folks, While in Jacksonville I bought a pocketbook edition of Great English and American poems. Poetry is an ingenious an beautiful mode of expression, a literature which only now I am beginning to really appreciate. This little volume has brought me much pleasure in my leisure moments, and it has been great fun to renew acquaintance with those old familiar verses of childhood-The Owl and the Pussy Cat, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Little Boy Blue, Abou Ben Adhem, and others. I can remember as clear as if it were yesterday your reading these imperishable lines to Ben and me as we lay in our double decker in the little North room. Those are cherished memories-peaceful, quiet, carefree, happy. And now in more recent years there are many, many more bits of lyrical expression which appeal to me, which I enjoy reading-out loud if possible. Are you familiar with these-Marlowe's "A Passionate Shepherd to his Love," Lovelace's "To Lucasta Going to the Wars." Pope's "Solitude" & "Man," Gray's "Elegy," Burns' "A Man's a Man For a' that," "To a Mouse." Wordsworth's "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways,"
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Wednesday April 5, 1943 Dear Folks, While in Jacksonville I bought a pocketbook edition of Great English and American poems. Poetry is an ingenious an beautiful mode of expression, a literature which only now I am beginning to really appreciate. This little volume has brought me much pleasure in my leisure moments, and it has been great fun to renew acquaintance with those old familiar verses of childhood-The Owl and the Pussy Cat, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, Little Boy Blue, Abou Ben Adhem, and others. I can remember as clear as if it were yesterday your reading these imperishable lines to Ben and me as we lay in our double decker in the little North room. Those are cherished memories-peaceful, quiet, carefree, happy. And now in more recent years there are many, many more bits of lyrical expression which appeal to me, which I enjoy reading-out loud if possible. Are you familiar with these-Marlowe's "A Passionate Shepherd to his Love," Lovelace's "To Lucasta Going to the Wars." Pope's "Solitude" & "Man," Gray's "Elegy," Burns' "A Man's a Man For a' that," "To a Mouse." Wordsworth's "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways,"
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