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 relating to a Festival session on poetry and music. Much of the correspondence relates to commissions to have Robert Graves’s poem ‘Counting the Beats’ set to music. Lennox Berkeley, Nicholas Maw, Richard Arnell, and Humphrey Searle accepted the commission and corresponden...