BIB_ID
197382
Accession number
MA 13147
Creator
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
Display Date
[no year] Sept. 21.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 29.4 cm + with envelope and a signed photograph
Notes
Envelope addressed: Paul Furness Esq / 7 Eastdean Gardens / Seacroft / Leeds 14 / Yorkshire / England.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Noting that, although he was born in York, he cannot think of himself as a Yorkshireman, but that he has a "great love for the Yorkshire dales, in particular Swaledale, to which I have referred in a poem called 'Streams'"; goes on to say that his poem "In praise of limestone" "owes something to that landscape, though it happens to be written abount Florence, which is geologically similar"; and adds in a P.S., "How could I become Poet Laureate when I am an American Citizen?".
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