Found 6 collections related to Poets, English -- 20th century -- Correspondence

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, English poet and biographer. · To Neville Rogers, Shelley scholar : 1 autograph letter signed : 16 Sep 1957 : (S'ANA 0912.63) : 2 pages (single sheet) : from Castello di Montegufoni, Montagnana, Val di Pesa, prov. Firenze : begins, "It is with very much regret that I am obliged to say that I cannot, as I had hoped, review your anthology ..."; with the stamped, postmarked envelope. less

John Edward Masefield, English poet and novelist. To Neville Rogers, Shelley scholar : 4 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 12 Jul 1961 : (S'ANA 0912.47) : from Burcote Brook, Abingdon (printed stationery) : begins, "I thank you for your letter & for the kind things you say of my work. I will will gladly support the scheme for the restoration of the window to Vincent Novello ..." With the stamped and post-marked envelope, with black wax seal. -- 1 typescript letter signed : [ca. 1961?] : (S'ANA 0912.44) : from Burcote Brook, Abingdon (printed stationery) : begins, "Many thanks for your letter. I am sorry to have to refuse your request. I have been ill ..." -- 1 typescript letter signed : [ca. 1961?] : (S'ANA 0912.45) : from Burcote Brook, Abingdon (printed stationery) : begins, "Many thanks for your letter. For the next few months I shall be very much pressed with work of different kinds, and may be quite unable to write you anything ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : [ca. 1961?] : (S'ANA 0912.46) : from Burcote Brook, Abingdon (printed stationery) : begins, "So many thanks for you letter & for the very kind gift of your book ...". less

The W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman letters to Irving and Anne Weiss, dating from the 1940s to 2000, consist primarily of handwritten and typed letters and poems, as well as photographs exchanged between the couples from the 1940s to the 1970s. The collection also contains some posthumous newspaper clippings, dating from the 1970s to 2000, about Auden and Kallman's relationship. less

Tomislav Sabljak (born 1934 in Zagreb, Croatia) is a Croatian writer, translator, and retired university professor, associated with the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the University of Zagreb. The collection comprises letters, postcards, and a telegram received by Tomislav Sabljak at Zagreb in Yugoslavia, later Croatia, from English poets W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, and Stephen Spender, as well as Americans Mark Schorer, author, and Karl Shapiro, poet, dated 1963-1972, and 1995. The correspondence, conveying a sense of literary fellowship, chiefly concerns the translation of the writers' works into Croatian, and their publication. Travel plans are also discussed. Auden and Spender answer questions about meanings held in their poems, with Spender explaining two terms with small pen drawings (1966 January 6). Present are thirteen autograph and typed letters signed by W. H. Auden, and a telegram, 1964-1972, including the typed text of his poem "August 1968" (1969 February 14); eight autograph and typed letters signed by Stephen Spender, 1964-1967, 1995; two typed letters signed by T. S. Eliot, 1963 August 27 (aerogramme) and 1964 May 7, thanking Sabljak for articles he sent; and a typed letter signed by Ted Hughes, 1968 December 3, enclosing typescripts of three poems for translation: "Carrion Tiresias Examines the Sacrifice," "A Kill," and "Notes for a Little Play." Two postcards from Mark Schorer in Italy, 1964, concern his intention to visit Zagreb, and a typed letter signed by Karl Shapiro from Nebraska, 1966 February 23, expresses his thanks. The writers mention Auden and Spender, respectively. Also present is an undated autograph letter signed by Natasha Spender, postmarked 1995 August 31, advising of her husband's death less

Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was an English poet, writer, and librarian. While attending the University of Oxford, Larkin befriended fellow student Norman Iles. The majority of the letters are from Larkin to Iles and date from 1941 to 1982. The collection additionally includes two letters to Iles from another member of "The Seven," Philip Brown. less