ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to Arlo Bates (1850-1918), Washington, 29 September 1897. 1½ pages, 4to, on Navy Department stationery, a few corrections, emendations and exclamations added in Roosevelt's hand .
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to Arlo Bates (1850-1918), Washington, 29 September 1897. 1½ pages, 4to, on Navy Department stationery, a few corrections, emendations and exclamations added in Roosevelt's hand . "MEREDITH AND HARDY...SHOW DISTINCT SYMPTOMS OF THE SAME DISEASE..." ROOSEVELT ATTACKS THE "DECADENT" QUALITY OF MODERN LITERATURE T. R. pauses in his official duties to send a warm and enthusiastic letter of appreciation to a fellow author--and reveals some of his strong prejudices about modern literature. "Just a line to say how very much I have enjoyed your volume of essays just out" ( Talks on the Study of Literature ). "Cabot Lodge wrote me calling my attention to it, and I owe him a debt of gratitude...It did me good to see the straightforward fashion in which you dealt with Maeterlinck, Ibsen, Verlaine, Tolstoi and the decadents generally. I wish Howells could be persuaded to read and profit by what you have written! It seems to me, however, that both Meredith and Hardy in his latter books, beginning with 'Tess,' show distinct symptoms of the same disease, although it takes very different form in the two cases. Moreover, I always feel like putting in a plea for Longfellow. I think there will be a revival of appreciation for Longfellow some time. He is more than simply sweet and wholesome. His ballad-like poetry, such as the 'Saga of King Olaf,' 'The Discovery of the North Cape,' 'Belisarius,' and others, especially of the sea, have it seems to me the strength as well as the simplicity that marks Walter Scott and the old English ballad-writers. However I may be a crank about all this, for I am extremely fond of a great deal of Macauley's ballad poetry, in spite of all the fustian that there is in parts of it." He further confesses to always having "a dreadful mental limitation about the...popular part of Robinson Crusoe , and about a good deal of Arabian Nights . But he was reading both books to his young children, and his prejudices are "not shared by either Mrs. Roosevelt or the children." A fine expression of Roosevelt's passion for literature and ideas; and a poignant example of his unease over the erosion of the old Victorian certainties in the face of a new cultural sensibility he saw as morally ambiguous, iconoclastic and cynical.
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to Arlo Bates (1850-1918), Washington, 29 September 1897. 1½ pages, 4to, on Navy Department stationery, a few corrections, emendations and exclamations added in Roosevelt's hand .
ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Typed letter signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, to Arlo Bates (1850-1918), Washington, 29 September 1897. 1½ pages, 4to, on Navy Department stationery, a few corrections, emendations and exclamations added in Roosevelt's hand . "MEREDITH AND HARDY...SHOW DISTINCT SYMPTOMS OF THE SAME DISEASE..." ROOSEVELT ATTACKS THE "DECADENT" QUALITY OF MODERN LITERATURE T. R. pauses in his official duties to send a warm and enthusiastic letter of appreciation to a fellow author--and reveals some of his strong prejudices about modern literature. "Just a line to say how very much I have enjoyed your volume of essays just out" ( Talks on the Study of Literature ). "Cabot Lodge wrote me calling my attention to it, and I owe him a debt of gratitude...It did me good to see the straightforward fashion in which you dealt with Maeterlinck, Ibsen, Verlaine, Tolstoi and the decadents generally. I wish Howells could be persuaded to read and profit by what you have written! It seems to me, however, that both Meredith and Hardy in his latter books, beginning with 'Tess,' show distinct symptoms of the same disease, although it takes very different form in the two cases. Moreover, I always feel like putting in a plea for Longfellow. I think there will be a revival of appreciation for Longfellow some time. He is more than simply sweet and wholesome. His ballad-like poetry, such as the 'Saga of King Olaf,' 'The Discovery of the North Cape,' 'Belisarius,' and others, especially of the sea, have it seems to me the strength as well as the simplicity that marks Walter Scott and the old English ballad-writers. However I may be a crank about all this, for I am extremely fond of a great deal of Macauley's ballad poetry, in spite of all the fustian that there is in parts of it." He further confesses to always having "a dreadful mental limitation about the...popular part of Robinson Crusoe , and about a good deal of Arabian Nights . But he was reading both books to his young children, and his prejudices are "not shared by either Mrs. Roosevelt or the children." A fine expression of Roosevelt's passion for literature and ideas; and a poignant example of his unease over the erosion of the old Victorian certainties in the face of a new cultural sensibility he saw as morally ambiguous, iconoclastic and cynical.
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