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Autographed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Getting along. Speech is a little thick but that beside it moves.” He is speaking on May 25.

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Typed letter signed, 1 page. Rutherford, NJ. Praises [Poetry in our time, Holt, 1952]. “I like its positiveness... It does not waver... I like that but gently, smoothly.”

Description Autographed letter signed, 3 pages. Sequoia National Park. Unlike “posturing” of New Criticism, many “partisan and tedious” explanations of modern poetry, [Poetry in our time] is “a fine book, very judicious.” Quarrels with omission of Kenneth Patchen, proletarian poets (mentions Magill, Potamkin, Gold, others). Feels movement failed. “Why has the promise of a whole generation just been blotted out by the respectable and academics?” Opposite occurred in France: Prevert, Eluard sell well,...

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Autographed letter signed,  1 page. San Francisco. Thinks Tale of Genji probably “the greatest work of prose fiction ever written.” “...pretty comic... But as you read on you will discover that it is a religious novel of the most profound import...” “Perhaps it has played a role in my life similar to that played by the Gospels or Capital in the lives of disagreeable people.”

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Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. San Francisco. Comments on Genji, notes his own dissatisfaction with Proust. Asks Deutsch to review 14 poems of O.V.L.-Milosz [published as 23 poems of O.V. Lubicz-Milosz, Peregrene Press, 1952], a practice he dislikes. Has just read a review in Mandrake of Brooks on poetry, summarizing Brooks. “Very handy to have - I disagree with every word of it.”