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Contains 153 Results:

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 September 8

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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Typed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn, NY. Gratified for Deutsch review of Transport to summer. Notes mother died July 9.

Moore, Marianne, to Deutsch, Babette, 1947 September 11

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 6
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Autographed letter signed, 1 page. Brooklyn, NY. Thanks her for perceiving Moore's feelings [on the death of her mother].

Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, 1948 May 25

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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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.

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1948 September 27

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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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.

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1948 September 28

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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,...

Deutsch, Babette, to Williams, William Carlos, 1949 January 23

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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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.”

MacGreevy, Thomas, to Deutsch, Babette, 1948 February 22

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Description Autographed letter signed, 8 pages. Dublin. Regrets that Irish poetry must now conform to “British Council” standards. He has sent her a Dante article, one of “dozens” of essays which would make “succesful books” had he a publisher. MacGreevy's only poem published in an Irish newspaper, the Irish Statesman, was Godh Ruadh, given to A.E. (George William Russell) after Mrs. W.B. [Yeats] had read it to him. Beckett will be home soon; MacGreevy cannot understand an Irish Protestant's writing in...

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

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Description 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...

Williams, William Carlos, to Deutsch, Babette, 1949 January 25

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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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.

Rexroth, Kenneth to Deutsch, Babette, 1949 January 26

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 9
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...