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Correspondence from John Riley, 11 Jan. 1970-31 Jan. 1978 (and undated)

 Series
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10000/2

Scope and Contents

58 letters, eight cards and 16 sheets of poems. With three envelopes. The poems present include: "I'm tired of this word love it's over-..."; "and Kenner, who made modern literature..."; 'it seems to me'; "That purple stuff..."; 'Walking Through London'; 'Autumn Journal'; 'This Time Of Year'; 'Love Poem'; 'The Full Moon is Bathing these Fields'; 'A Fine Way to Carry On'; 'A Picture: an Historical Perspective'; 'Bright Feast, The Desert in a Pagan Year'; 'To Flower, To Ripen'; 'In a Time'; 'Czargrad' (fragments); "in almost total deprivation we are all..."; 'movement in three parts'; 'at the Stanley Spencer exhibition'; "impossible to be silent, impossible to speak..." ; "waves lap against rock..."; 'Octets' (translations from Osip Mandelshtam); 'travel notes'; 'fugue'; 'The Attraction'; 'February Sonnet'; "it is a carpet of tigers..."; "how good, those excursions into silence,..."; 'it's rude to point'; 'Open House'; 'Landscape With Figures'; 'The Letter About The Opening Trees'. Also with a copy of Martin Heidegger, 'Abendgang auf der Reichenau', with a translation, 'Evening on the Reichenau', by John Peck.

Dates

  • Creation: 11 Jan. 1970-31 Jan. 1978 (and undated)

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

The collection contains personal correspondence. The provisions of the Data Protection Act (1998) apply to access. Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).

Extent

1 folder(s) (1 folder)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

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