[BNP/E3, 133G – 10^r]

Frederick Wyatt Cypher

He was extraordinarily ignorant of modern English literature and especially of modern English poets. He never read anything by Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw {…}

Even of the French poets he did not know the more recent ones. He knew Baudelaire, Rollinat (“Les Névroses”) certainly.

I do not think he had any knowledge of Verlaine {…}