Excerpt from The Letters of Charles Sorley: With a Chapter of Biography
In the spring of 1916, a few weeks after the publication of Marlborough and Other Poems a letter about the book and its author reached me from an unknown correspondent. "I have had it a week," he wrote, "and it has haunted my thoughts. I have been affected with a sense of personal loss, as if he had been not a stranger but my dearest friend. But indeed his personality - the 'vivida vis animi' - shines so strongly out of every line, that I feel I have known him as one knows very few living people: and surely no one was ever better worth knowing." "I venture to beg you," the writer went on to say, "before it is too late, to give the world some fuller account of his brief life... Let us know him with his faults nothing extenuated, as his fellows knew him, with the 'rebel' side brought out - the boy who 'got not many good reports,' who was yet the same as he who stood 'with parted lips and outstretched hands.'"
Many other readers made the same request or urged the publication of a volume of Letters from Germany and from the Army, which had been printed privately and given to a few personal friends. At the time we were not persuaded. It seemed to us that enough had been done by publishing the poems and that, for the rest, so dear a memory need not be shared with the world.
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