An Inventory of His "Let the Poet Choose" Correspondence at the Harry
Ransom Center
Creator:
Gibson, James, 1919-2005
Title:
"Let the Poet Choose"
Correspondence
Dates:
1966-1973, undated
Extent:
1 box (.42 linear feet)
Abstract:
Includes letters from poets who
selected poems for Let the Poet Choose (1973), an
anthology edited by James Gibson. The letters are sometimes accompanied by the
texts
of the poems and / or text with the reasons why they were chosen. Contributors
include Kingsley Amis, W. H. Auden, John Betjeman, Edmund Blunden, Richard Church,
Cecil Day-Lewis, Lawrence Durrell, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted
Hughes, Philip Larkin, Stevie Smith, Stephen Spender, and others.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection MS-1598
Language:
English
Access:
Open for research
Administrative Information
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Sara Saastamoinen, 2012
Note: This finding aid replicates and replaces information
previously available only in a card catalog. Please see the explanatory note at
the
end of this finding aid for information regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts
as well as the abbreviations commonly used in descriptions.
