Contains correspondence and papers relating to a Festival session of specially commissioned dramatic verse. Includes correspondence with Ted Hughes, Christopher Logue, Henry Reed, Vernon Scannell, and Michael Baldwin. Scannell’s and Baldwin’s annotated typescripts are included.
Contains correspondence and papers relating to sessions on: The Rebel in Poetry. American Poetry. Includes correspondence with Robert Lowell concerning his appearance at the Festival, Lowell’s schedule for his time in London, and correspondence with the American Embassy. European Voices. Includ...
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...