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
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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...
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, ...
Correspondence and papers relating to advertising and publicity for the festival
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Includes press releases and information; copy for, and proofs of, adverts; advertising budgets; brochures and leaflets; details of advertisers for the festival programme; and papers relating to advertising on London Transport.
Papers relating to the Festival souvenir programme and poster
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Contains correspondence relating to advertising in the programme, printing costs, content, distribution of the festival poster, and proofs of advertisements. A copy of the programme is also included.
Biographical details of poets, photography, and translation
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Contains biographies of poets and copies of translated verse for inclusion in the programme, correspondence with translators and poets regarding translation, and correspondence regarding photography. Also contains publicity photographs of: Yehudi Amichai (7 photographs); W. H. Auden (2); Chaim Be...