Aet. 29, to a literary critic. George Moore contemplated expurgation of Pagan Poems for a revised second edition. “A Parisian Idyl,” “Sappho,” and “The Portrait” are poems in the book; part one of “The Portrait” is subtitled “The Triumph of the Flesh.” At least one heavily marked-up copy of Pagan Poems is extant, probably in a private collection.
George also looked forward in this letter to Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s forthcoming Ballads and Sonnets (October 1881). He did not review it in the Spectator but contributed “Dante Gabriel Rossetti” to the Hawk (10 December 1889).
The twins Michael Ford and Mary Elizabeth were born to William and Lucy Rossetti in April 1881.
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