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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to John Crowe Ransom Praising Theodore Roethke
by WRIGHT, James
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- About Fine
- Seller
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Seattle, 24 April 1954. Letter. About Fine. Fine, single-spaced typed letter on one side of a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper to poet and teacher John Crowe Ransom SIGNED "Jim Wright" about permission to reprint a poem first published in THE KENYON REVIEW. Wright, 26 at the time, was a former student of Ransom's at Kenyon College and here talks about how engaging graduate school (the University of Washington) is. "You will be glad to hear that Mr. Roethke is apparently over the worst of his illness, and is teaching again. He is as brilliant and stimulating as ever. It is a curious experience to work in his class. He knows, mysteriously perhaps, a thousand practical ways of conveying to students the necessity for formal mastery in poetry. He is capable of taking fantastic pains with a single small exercise; and his exercises, even the small ones, are always difficult and engaging. Finally, I think he is the best reader of poetry I have ever heard, with the exception of Dylan Thomas." Pencil notation in upper blank margin by Ransom.
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- Seller
- Charles Agvent
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 021336
- Title
- TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to John Crowe Ransom Praising Theodore Roethke
- Author
- WRIGHT, James
- Format/Binding
- Letter
- Book Condition
- Used - About Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Seattle
- Date Published
- 24 April 1954
- Keywords
- Signed, James Wright, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry
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- Autograph Letters;
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Charles Agvent
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Charles Agvent
Biblio member since 2003
Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
About Charles Agvent
We carry a diverse and select stock with major specialties including Modern and 19th Century Literary First Editions, Signed Books & Autographs (especially Presidential and Literary), and Limited Editions Club books. We have been in business since 1987 and are proud to be members of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB).
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