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Typed letter signed : Forio d'Ischia, Naples, to Laurence Lerner, 1957 September 15.

BIB_ID
401952
Accession number
MA 8892
Creator
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.
Display Date
1957 September 15.
Credit line
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund for Poetry, 2017.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.7 x 21 cm
Notes
Written from: "Quarto San Giovanni, Vico, 4/ Forio d'Ischia/ Prov. di Napoli/ Italy".
With some typed corrections.
Lerner was a British poet who was published by the Fantasy Press in the early 1950s, along with Larkin, Amis, and others.
Provenance
Purchased from Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc., February 2017.
Summary
Thanking Lerner for his letter; writing of his poem "September 1, 1939": "Between you and me I loathe that poem. It is rhetorical in the worst sort of way and much too 'pi'. I tried to save it by cutting out what seemed to me the falsest verse. (It's simply not true that 'We must love one another or die'. We must love one another and die.) But the cut doesn't help. The whole poem has to be scrapped."