Add MS 88487

Alvarez Papers. Vol. vi.

1. Correspondence of Alvarez proposing two new anthologies and a critical magazine; 1955-1957, n.d.

2. Three copies of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation, No. 1; [1965?]. Printed.

3. General correspondence between Penguin Books, Alvarez and the contributors to PMEP; 1962–1975, n.d. Including some translations. Followed by suggestions received for additions to PMEP; 1965-1973.

4. Miscellaneous introductions and translations, including poems of Ferenc Juhasz translated by David Wevill which were published in Selected Poems, Harmsworth: Penguin, 1970 (PMEP); 1965-1973.

5. Works of Tadeusz Rózewicz translated and with an introduction by Adam Czerniawski; 1965. Published in Selected Poems, Harmsworth: Penguin, 1976 (PMEP).

6. Poems by Attila József, Miklos Radnóti and Sándor Weöres, translated by Istvan Farkas; 1965. With translations of Weöres poems by Peter Redgrove The versions of Weöres eventually published in Selected Poems, Harmsworth: Penguin, 1970 (PMEP), were by Edwin Morgan. The other two poets appear not to have been included in PMEP.

7. Poems of Miroslav Holub, translated by Ian Milner, with draft contents list for the publication in the hand of Alvarez; 1965. Typewritten. Published in Selected Poems, Harmsworth: Penguin, 1967 (PMEP no. D95). Followed by proofs of a Foreword by Alvarez for On the Contrary and Other Poems, published Newcastle upon Tyne: Bloodaxe, 1984. Correspondence between Alvarez and Holub, 1963-1979, is in Add. 88598.