Dawkins, Cecil, 1927-2019
Dates
- Existence: 1927-10-02 - 2019-05-11
Biography
American poet.
Found in 101 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-07-17
"Well my novel is finished and on its way courtesy the US Postal Service to the publisher. Catharine Carver's final verdict was that it is the best thing I've done..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-08-23
"...I appreciate your noble intention to review my work with superlatives and I suggest you write the review before you read the book, then you will be even more reckless with them..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-08-25
"...I read a part of a Death in the Family in one of the Martha Foley collections and saw right then I didn't want to read any more of it. Agee is also the author of the worst story ever written by a man, something called A Mother's Tale. Also in a Martha Foley. You really ought to read it. It's unbelievable..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-09-16
"...Yes I finished my story and it is a a [sic] beauty but I can't use it. I used the occasion of a town pageant. We had one here in 1953, a sesquicentennial and a local fellow went beserk [sic] and shot the head of the pageant committee and a lawyer and them himself..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-09-22
"...Since I never emerge from these things sounding like anything but a cretin, I have written what I have to say to her down and I intend to present her with it. For the rest I will confine myself to comments on the weather..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-09-27
"...My galleys are on the way and I expect them to be here tomorrow and I dred [sic] having to read the whole thing again and face it in print. The first time is the worst..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-10-07
"I know how you feel about the novel because I am at sort of the same place now myself. I don't have a novel to write and you can't write a novel until you've got something expandable in you. At the same time, I find you can't continue to write one story after another, or anyway I can't because I don't have that many stories either..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-10-19
"...I haven't read Wise Blood since it was published. Maybe some day [sic] I will read it again and decide what I think of it. I know that this new one is much more ambitious and probably less immediately satisfying than WB [sic]..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-10-31
"...I hope you get paid for these reviews if they are going to cut them. Nothing but money makes that endurable..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-11-20
"...These are all people exactly like what I might invent to torture some poor character. The article itself was better than I hoped it would be but then it should have been because I wrote down what I wanted to say and handed it to her when she came. Nevertheless, I have had the creeps for the past two weeks..."