THE LETTERS OF RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Robert Trevelyan

Letter No. VWL2135

Letter from Ralph Vaughan Williams to Robert Trevelyan

Letter No.: VWL2135


From R. Vaughan Williams,
The White Gates,
Westcott Road,
Dorking.

[Christmas 1950]

Dear Bob

Thank you for your beautiful poems – especially the first. How alarmingly modern Leopardi’s sentiments appear sometimes.1
Yrs

R. Vaughan Williams


1. Trevelyan had published Translations from Leopardi in 1941, comprising 14 English translations of poems from Leopardi’s Canti.