Note 60 — Chapter XIV · : COMMUNION AND EXCOMMUNION
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With nothing that he has to say of another poet is it so impossible to agree as with his own estimate of the relative importance of the sections of New Poems—
"Creccas Cottage, Pantasaph, November 1896.
"My dear Doubleday,—I regret that I cannot consent to the omission of the translations. If anything is to be left out, it must be the section Ultima, not the translations. I said at Pantasaph that I would keep these, whatever I left out. They were held over from my first book, and I will not hold them over again. I regard the 'Heard on the Mountain' as a feat in diction and metre; and in this respect Coventry Patmore agrees with me. But I do not at all mind leaving out the section Ultima.—Yours,
F. T."