Includes ‘Midnight in Milano’; Barker’s reviews of Julian Maclaren-Ross’s Memoirs of the Forties, Homage to George Barker, John Betjeman’s Continual Dew, Kathleen Raine’s The Lion’s Mouth, Robert Lowell, and Anthony Thwaite’s Twentieth Century English Poetry; ‘A Little Honouring of Lionel Johnson...
Includes notes by Barker on poetry and poets, and a [1951] review by Betty (Cashenden) Cass, Barker’s lover from the late 1940s to 1957, of Stendhal’s The Telegraph, the second book of Lucien Leuwen.
Personal papers of, and relating to, George Barker
Scope & Content:
Includes a programme for readings by Barker at the Library of Congress; three versions of Barker’s last will and testament (1965, 1969, 1985); a photograph of [Gene Derwood’s 1943] portrait of Barker; a photograph of an unidentified couple, Yaddo rose garden, 1950; papers relating to Barker’s tea...
Contains a programme for a performance of ‘Gesta Grayorum The Prince of Purpoole III’, by Robert Atkins, 1956; Carr’s Dictionary of Extra-ordinary English Cricketers, 1981; an essay on an unidentified woman’s religious education; and a script of a short play called ‘On the Line’.