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Auster, Paul, 1947-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1947

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Draft Letter from L. (R.) J. [Laura Jackson] to The Editor of The New York Review of Books, Undated

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: 1976.004.1.13.001
Scope and Contents

"...Mr. Paul Auster's review of two books of mine in your issue of August 7th: Communicated views of it of friends, communicated to me., impressed on me the need of comment. One thought it 'rather nice'."

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"I pause over one of Mr. Auster's historical touches, reference to Robert Graves telling of Auden for his imitations of me. That is retrospective self-preening. Auden's takings from me were Gargantuan, rather comically assiduous."

Dates: Undated

Letter from Laura (riding) Jackson to The Editor of The New York Review of Books, 1975-08-04

 Item — Box 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: 1976.004.1.13.002
Scope and Contents "A friend who knows something of my language-studies but is only slightly acquainted with my other work, early and later, has sent me a copy of Mr. Paul Auster's review of my books Selected Poems: In Five Sets and The Telling published in your issue of August 7th, commenting on it as "a rather nice review". It is not a nice review, as my friend would know if he had better acquaintance with my work in the whole, and experienced sense of the procedures followed by poets, poet-critics,...
Dates: 1975-08-04