It is surely only a question of the different shape that words assume in the mind, not a question of drunkenness and sobriety. I don’t believe there is any, with all due respect to Coleridge. I don’t think I am half crafty enough.Ībout prose and poetry, and the difference between them. I must tell you how much I enjoyed my weekend with you…ĭarling Virginia, you don’t know how happy I was. By summer’s end their mutual feelings were flagging, and when it came time for Sackville to publish The Land in September, she dedicated the work to D orothy Wellesley, a poet and Duchess of Wellington, over Woolf. In the months following this letter’s writing, Woolf and Sackville-West lived apart in their respective English villages of Rodmell and Sevenoaks Weald. Below, Sackville-West responds to Virginia Woolf, who had asked her: “Tell me the difference between that emotion and the prose emotion? What drives you to one over the other?” The two were lovers at the time, a relationship which would serve as the basis for Woolf’s Orlando. The couple maintained an open relationship, both participating in same-sex relations. In May of 1926, Vita Sackville-West returned to England from a four-month-long expedition through Persia by virtue of her marriage-her husband, Harold, was a diplomat-she had been required to attend the coronation of the Rezā Shāh in Tehran.
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