Box 1
Contains 290 Results:
Letter from Laura Jackson to Michael Kirkham, 1974-02-22
Letter and Postcard from L.J. [Laura Jackson] to Ellsworth Mason, 1974-02-27
"I forget to tell you that my last letter to The Denver Quarterly in an article (mailed there subsequent) to Mr. Ford's, of my contributions in The Seizin Press, as to the Autumn 1973 issue-"
Photocopy of "Current Literature New Writing" in ENGLISH STUDIES Vol. 54 No.5, 1972
"Serious students of poetry can consider themselves lucky in having made available to them an important and authentic account of a perennial problem: the borderline between poetry and silence. In The Telling..."
Letter from Ellsworth Mason to Laura Jackson, 1974-07-02
"I have just received a letter dated June 28 from Burton Feldman stating that you are concerned about the disposition of the materials that went into establishing final text for your important article in the Denver Quarterly. Unfortunately, Mr. Feldman never received my letter of May 3, acknowledging with great thanks his gift of these materials..."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Ellsworth Mason, 1974-07-10
"I thank you for your account of the presentation to you by Mr. Feldman of the manuscript material about which a three-way agreement had been arrived at. The description of your handling of the material corresponds with your previous assurances to me as to this matter:..."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-05-21
"At least two things rise up to engage my thought, from what you present in your letter, besides the question that you put to me, and I am giving them priority of attention in this my reply because, in their bearing on research in which a connection between my poetic work and the poetic work of Mr. Auden is pointed to, they have more importance than the source of my quotation in the preface of my Collected Poems. First, as to your words on 'the relation' of my poetry and W.H. Auden's."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-06-16
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-06-20
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-06-23
"I had better complete my attention, for you, to the matter of The Survey of Modernist Poetry. There has appeared a faint possibility of my being able to have it printed with a preface by me - a thing I desire but also greatly ahrink from, hardly perceiving now the time, the energy, can be found for the writing of it (it would be no light task for me)....I have located in my papers a copy of what I put on record with the book in 1964, for preservation at Cornell."
Letter from Laura Jackson to Edward Mendelson, 1970-06-29
"It seems to me that you are conronted in the case of Auden with the necessity of a distinction between the problem of understanding the way in which a poet comes to write in the ways he or she does and the severe responsibility of differentiation between the poet's ways of writing that are of the poet's nature and the ways that are grafte dupon - not the nature, you can't graft upon a nature - but the posture the poet assumes before the public."