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COWLEY, MALCOLM. Group of 5 Autograph Letters and Notes Signed. Mostly single 8vo pages, some horizonal fo...

COWLEY, MALCOLM. Group of 5 Autograph Letters and Notes Signed. Mostly single 8vo pages, some horizontal folds. Vp, vd

  • Notes: To poet Theodore Roethke, commenting on a collection he submitted (" . . . in some of your poems . . . you are excessively skillful and cold, almost Ivor Wintry.") 1 page, 8vo. 1936 * To poet/novelist Louise Bogan, about criticism of poets Jarrell, Prokosch, and MacNeice, with mention of Auden, Dylan Thomas, and Edmund Wilson: "I''m almost getting pathologically tender-hearted. I have been caused so much pain by reviewers and political allrighntiks of several shades of opinion that I don''t want to cause pain to anybody . . ." 1 page, 8vo. 1941 * The Literary Situation. Excerpt, Signed. First Edition in stiff wrappers. 1965 * To Louis Zara about their works: "I liked your picking a proud, hot-tempered and bellicose Jew for a hero. 1 page, 8vo, folded. 14 October 1954 * To Brooklyn College''s Dr. Maurice Kramer giving permission to quote him in Kramer''s new book about modern American literary criticism. 1 page, 8vo and another half-page ANS 21 and 30 June 1968 * To Clinton Krauss discussing Henry Dan Piper. 1 page, 8vo, 17 September 1982.
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