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Contains 6 Results:

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 May 29

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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Autographed letter signed, 4 pages. Dublin.Discusses personal plans with Samuel Beckett, recounts writing of The special, concerning Lusitania sinking, and personal experiences. Sends from memory a poem written in London.

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 June 4

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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Autographed letter signed, 2 pages. Dublin. Discusses Cable's The Grandissimes, notes he is trying to collect some Beckett poems for Deutsch to use in a book.

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 July 5

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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Autographed letter signed, 7 pages. Dublin. Comments on broadcasting, rebukes her on [adverse] remarks about MacDowell's music, Cable's The Grandissimes. Recollects early reading of Henry James, finding a copy of Alice James' Journals, recounts a remark by Catherine Corswell about novelist Dorothy Richardson, a drive with painter Jack Yeats and Samuel Beckett; discusses religious matters, a conversation with D.H. Lawrence.

Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 July 28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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Typed letter signed, 3 pages. Rutherford, NJ. Enjoyed Utah literary conference, shared with AllenTate, Ray West, Mark Shorer [sic], Waltervan Tilbury [sic] Clark, Brewster Ghiselin, Eric Bently [sic]. Discusses labor violence in Paterson, tells her plan for remaining three parts, notes he is not a Marxist. Comments on Jarrell reviews of his work, discusses “that green bottle piece” [unnamed poem]. Incomplete in Selected letters, pp. 258-259.

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 July 31

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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Autographed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn.She denies disliking poetry, but prefers manner of certain kinds. Thanks Deutsch for speaking to her at T.S. Eliot lecture.

Roethke, Theodore, to Deutsch, Babette, 1948 January 22

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 5
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Typed letter signed, 4 pages. Seattle. Quotes from Jung to effect that poet should not be expected to interpret his work, explains first four sections of The lost son, The long alley, A field of light, lets her work out The shape of the fire. Poems have been “written out of suffering,” are meant to be heard. Notes that in this kind of poem, poet should render experience, not comment.