Correspondence with, and papers relating to, the Arts Council
Scope & Content:
Contains correspondence and papers relating, chiefly, to Arts Council grants to, and funding of, the Poetry Book Society. Papers relating to the Council’s 1991 appraisal of the Society and papers relating to W. H. Auden material in the Poetry Library of the Arts Council are also included.
Correspondence and papers relating, chiefly, to the Arts Council’s appraisal of the Poetry Book Society
Scope & Content:
Includes the Society’s submission as part of the appraisal process, the Council’s appraisal report, discussion of the report’s findings amongst Society members and management, and the Society’s initial reply to the report. The appraisal was part of the Arts Council’s programme of assessment of it...
Papers relating to W. H. Auden from the Poetry Library of the Arts Council
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Contains a photocopy of a typewritten, unpublished W. H. Auden poem ‘Ode to the New Year (1939)’, and related correspondence. The library copied the poem from a copy lent to Charles Osborne by Tom Driberg but Auden’s literary executor, Edward Mendelson, asked the library to remove its copy from s...