BIB_ID
415763
Accession number
MA 22226.2
Creator
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, sender.
Display Date
Rutherford, New Jersey, 1949 May 4.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 28 x 21.6 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Dick."
Signed in black ink "Bill."
Place of writing inferred from previous correspondence.
Signed in black ink "Bill."
Place of writing inferred from previous correspondence.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Explaining how Eberhart's poem "Encore" speaks to him; expressing the importance of being able to communicate about poetry and opinions to each other; discussing their mutual friend "Cal"; giving his opinion on the symbolism of civilization; saying that he despises Eliot, "his blasphemy toward the world I live in and breathe every day. And, for his sake, whose world is it? He says, God's world. Then what a foul priest he is. For me it is (I copy Gide) Virtue. Vir : man."
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