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Typed letter signed, 2 pages. Rutherford, NJ. Cannot understand the “obscurity of purpose” of Auden's Age of anxiety. Often finds “little to praise” in his own attempts at poetry, comparing them to “not only the vigor but the sensitiveness to the life in a thousand phases” of Pound's cantos.

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Typed letter signed, 1 page. Dublin. Lists his past months occupations, including his part in the Galway reburial of W.B. Yeats.

Description Autographed letter signed, 4 pages. Dublin. In answer to her question about Joyce's “ineradicable Catholicism,” MacGreevy says one shouldn't “presume to speak about more than his ineradicable preoccupation with Catholicism.” He does not agree with her view that there is “no radiance” in Ulysses or Finnegans wake. Disputes idea of Irish fascism, said by an Irishman to have come from the Sinn Fein movement. Notes that nationalism is a reaction to imperialism. Berates film Elizabeth and Essex,...

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Typed letter signed, 1 page. New York. Asks Williams view of a passage in the introduction to Rexroth's anthology, New British poets regarding American objectivism. She questions his list of originators. Asks also if Williams agrees to Rexroth's view that it is the “last gasp of literary cubism.”

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Autographed letter signed, appended to Deutsch to Williams, January 23, 1949, 1 page. [Rutherford, NJ.] Thinks Rexroth's analysis of the Objectivists “silly.” Williams, Oppen, Zukofsky were part of the “To” group from which movement arose as a result of dissatisfaction with Imagism. [Yvor] Winters was not involved.

Description Typed letter signed, 2 pages. San Francisco, CA. Thanks her for kind remarks about British poets anthology. Explains his circumstances on American Objectivism: originally Zukofsky's idea, it emphasized “presentational immediacy,” Eliot's “objective correlative,” Pound's “ideographic method.” Rexroth disliked the “cuckoo land of malice [with] which Pound has always surrounded himself,” withdrew. George Oppen, Zukofsky parted, both unrealized as poets. Rexroth adds to list of influences...