. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. n, and John Morley. William Charles Bonaparte Wyse, born in 1826,was a grand-nephew of Napoleon, being the son ofSir Thomas Wyse, of the Manor of St John, Water-ford, by his marriage, in 1821, with Letitia, daughterof Prince Lucien Bonaparte, brother of the C. Bonaparte Wyse was a poet, particularlyversed in Proven9al metres. His most famous work,Parpaioun Blu, published in 1868, won the en-thusiastic approval of Victor Hugo, who wrote : Cest de la poesie vraie, parfois touchante . .vous ecrivez a merveille, et avec un
. George Meredith; his life and friends in relation to his work. n, and John Morley. William Charles Bonaparte Wyse, born in 1826,was a grand-nephew of Napoleon, being the son ofSir Thomas Wyse, of the Manor of St John, Water-ford, by his marriage, in 1821, with Letitia, daughterof Prince Lucien Bonaparte, brother of the C. Bonaparte Wyse was a poet, particularlyversed in Proven9al metres. His most famous work,Parpaioun Blu, published in 1868, won the en-thusiastic approval of Victor Hugo, who wrote : Cest de la poesie vraie, parfois touchante . .vous ecrivez a merveille, et avec une noble aisancedans ce vivant et lumineux idiome. . Noussommes freres dans la grande fraternite de , ciel de Iart, est la patrie des Piado de la Princesso was a later collection ofWyses Provenyal poetry.^ Meredith first met Wyse • A monumental record of Wyse was published by the LibrairieLemerre, Paris, in 1917, under the title of Un Filibre Irlandais:William, Bonaparte-Wyse ? sa Correspondance avec Mistral, par \\i\ TJA\i Charles Bonatarte Wyse From a photograph about iS6o BONAPARTE WYSE 115 in the early part of 1861, and in addition to thebond of poetry, he found Wyse a man after his ownheart in that this new friend shared his love forlong walks and pleasant excursions in their countyof Surrey, for Wyse was living in Guildford, whennot at his rooms in Great Coram Street. Con-sequently, Merediths letters to him are full of theirmutual poetical interests and pedestrian plans,though they soon voice one of the most intimatenotes that was ever sounded in his correspondence. The first letter merely gives directions for reach-ing Copsham Cottage. In the second he becomescharacteristic, and launches forth into directionsfor meetings at Ripley and The Lone Hut at Wisleyby Boldermere. He is weary of working at Emilia,and expatiates on the joys of Burford Bridge andthe nightingale-haunted Vale of Mickleham, andexpeditions afoot as far afield as
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