Includes correspondence with Miodrag Pavlovic, Lydia Pasternak Slater, Rafael Pineda, Erich Fried, Rex Warner, Yves Bonnefoy, and embassies and cultural attachés.
Contains typescripts, some corrected, of poems by Thomas Blackburn, Austin Clarke, Michael Hamburger, Ted Hughes, Patrick Kavanagh, Norman MacCaig, Richard Murphy, Sylvia Plath, Hal Summers, R. S. Thomas, and Laurence Whistler.
Correspondence relating to Guinness commissioned poetry
Scope & Content:
The correspondence discusses the poets to be commissioned, potential substitutes, the availability of the poets to read their work, and fees. Correspondents include Arthur Guinness Son & Co. and the commissioned poets.
Contains correspondence and papers relating to sessions on: The Poet and the Theatre. Includes correspondence with the BBC and T. S. Eliot. Also includes cast lists for performances of fragments of Eliot’s Sweeney Agonistes, W. B. Yeats’s Purgatory, and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. The P...
Contains correspondence and papers relating to sessions on: Silence Into Sound. Contains correspondence with Patrick Garland and two versions of the text. Five American Poets. Includes correspondence with Henry Rago, Carolyn Kizer, Albert Cook, John Brinnin, Laurence Spingarn, W. D. Snodgrass, ...