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MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1948 April 1

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8

Typed letter signed, 2 pages. Dublin. Chides her for calling him Mr. McGreevy [sic], explains Dublin use of first names. Waits for Paradiso note in Deutsch poetry, as he had told James Joyce he waited in Joyce's work. Goethe, Valery had it. Notes that W.B. Yeats used other writers “as grist for his own mill” but “would be at pains never to misrepresent them.” His knowledge of Irish would have been from hearing it spoken by Lady Gregory. Mentions Denis Devlin. Hopes she is wrong in calling MacGreevy anti-British, explains his feeling. He assumes he is not included in Iremonger's Irish anthology with Faber and Faber. Quotes D.L. Kelleher's “The five lesser joys of money,” remarks the new Francis Thompson book, Irish literary “provincialism.”

Dates

  • Creation: 1948 April 1

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