Rex Warner manuscripts and letters to Alan McLeod, 1945-1997.

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Rex Warner manuscripts and letters to Alan McLeod, 1945-1997.

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The collection contains Warner's BBC radio scripts, 1945-1956 (What's the point of poetry?; Aspects of contemporary Greek poetry; Reflections on Franz Kafka; Survey on liberty; Religion and philosophy, what is a myth?; Talks for sixth forms, Euripides and Greek drama; The spirit of the age; and Six virtues for authors, audacity); his manuscript notebook for Young Caesar, book II; and the program and his commencement speech, "The Greek and Latin classics," for his honorary doctorate at Rider College, 28 July 1968. The bulk of the collection are letters to Alan Lindsey McLeod, 1964-1986, and from his wife, Frances Warner, to Alan and Marian McLeod, 1986-1997. McLeod began a professional relationship with Warner in 1964 that became a personal one in 1968 after they met in person.

.45 cubic ft.

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Warner, Frances L.

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Warner, Rex, 1905-1986

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Rex Warner was born in Birmingham and was raised in the bucolic splendour of the Cotswold Hills, his father a clergyman, his mother a teacher. Winning a scholarship to Oxford, Warner developed an odd mix of intellectual intensity and rugged rusticism, which would inform his writing throughout his life. Popular with critics but seldom with the public, a central theme of his writing is man as a political entity, exemplified by his celebrated novels of Classical Rome and Greece. From th...

McLeod, A. L. (Alan Lindsey), 1928-

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Alan Lindsey McLeod has been a professor of English and speech and dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Rider College since 1966. He writes about the literature of his native Australia. From the description of Alan McLeod letters received, 1962-1989. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 40147147 Alan L. McLeod, professor of literature at Rider University, New Jersey, as well as a literary critic and editor of several volumes. McLeod researched a...

McLeod, Marian B.

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