Wittgenstein and Housman:
(Housman, qua Cambridge institution, comes up a lot in stories about people like Wittgenstein, Russell, G.H. Hardy and John Littlewood. I remember there being a delightful anecdote in
Littlewood's Miscellany involving Housman but I've forgotten what it was.)
This story is in a letter from Guy Davenport to Marjorie Perloff; the letter is worth reading in full, it cleverly juxtaposes Wittgenstein with Gertrude Stein, who might have liked the implied comparison. Davenport also has amusing things to say about Wittgenstein elsewhere; see a
prev. post.
While on the topic of celebrity letters, I should link to
Eliot's letter to Woolf that was posted on the Paris Review's blog today. And, while I'm free-associating on this topic, to
Eliot's magnificent letter to Middleton Murry on his second (third?) marriage.
PS re title see
here.
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