Thomas Mann an Charles Neider

Übersendet einiges Material für N.’s Anthologie. Hat N.’s Essay ›Brahms and Keats‹ gelesen und ist entzückt. »I was absolutely fascinated by the fact that you have chosen and quoted from the ›Ode to a Nightingale‹ as an example. As a matter of fact this ode is also mentioned in the novel I am working on at the moment, and my hero composes it in the original. I have quoted almost exactly the same verses you use in your essay, ›Fled is that music‹, as well as ›The weariness, the fever‹, etc.«