Record ID:
372860
Accession number:
MA 5142.29
Credit:
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 17.8 cm
Notes:
On letterhead stationery: "The Cast House: Curtisden Green: Cranbook: Kent."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of war poetry primarily related to World War II.
Summary:
Praising Piers Prodigal; addressing Davie's "chagrin at the neglect which the fashionable set have accorded him," and noting that "any poetry written in a central tradition with a respect for a rhetorical ingredient in its verse is fated to be pushed aside"; saying that he agrees with [Siegfried] Sassoon that "the most impressive poem in the book is the name piece"; suggesting that he send the book to William Force Stead, who was a great friend of Edmund Blunden.
Provenance:
Kenneth A. Lohf.
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