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, 1962-11-24
"The Guggenheim thing came and the enclosed is a carbon of my recommendation. I hope it does some good but I wouldn’t count on it. They make some very odd choices and pass over some very good people..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-01-13
"...I am letting the Thing [sic] I am writing set a while, while I write a piece for Sweet Briar. Then I have to write an introduction to the story A Good Man is Hard to Find to read at the University of Georgia..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-04-07
"...I went to Sweet Briar in early March for a symposium on Religion and Art and did I ever get a stomachful [sic] of liberal religion..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-06-16
"...Next April I'm going back to Boston to talk at Boston College if I am living. I refuse any longer to set exact dates months in advance and just say the month, which cuts down somewhat on the nerve-racking end of it..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-09-16
"...I've just been going on about my fictional bidnis [sic] this summer, staying doggedly on the wrong track I think, but I suppose you have to pursue the wrong road long enough to be able to identify it and then you can/keep off it. Anyway, I'm in no hurry. Right now I've had to stop the fiction to work on a talk..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-11-05
"...Did you ever consider Wise Blood as a possibility for dramatizing? If the times were different I would suggest that, but I think it would just be taken for the super-grotesque sub-Carson McCullars sort of thing that I couldn't stand the sight or sound of..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-11-08
"The name Asbury don't interest me. What I had thought to do was use that story to help explain Walter's character (the thing in Esquire). I may not do it, I may go on and rewrite it as a story and use it in the collection..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-12-01
"I can't recollect if I answered your last letter or not and answered your question about the line in The River..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1963-12-10
"...The reviews are the worst part of it, whether they're good or bad..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1964-03-01
"I wish I could answer the questions now but I am in the hospital..."