Geoffrey Grigson letter to Geoffrey Elborn, 1976 May 20.

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Geoffrey Grigson letter to Geoffrey Elborn, 1976 May 20.

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Grigson writes to Dear Sir [Geoffrey Elborn], 20 May 1976, giving his extremely unfavorable opinion of Edith Sitwell, finding "her poems pretentious, her pronouncements childish, her prose books ... a mixture of plagiarism and pretence," and telling Elborn where he can find evidence of "Dame Sitwell's powers of plagiarism." Elborn would later publish a biography about Sitwell in 1981. The letter is typescript on the letterhead for Broad Town Farmhouse.

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Sitwell, Edith, 1887-1964

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English poet, biographer, critic, and anthologist. Edited and contributed to the annual anthology Wheels. From the description of Edith Sitwell correspondence, 1942-1944. (Texas Woman's University Library). WorldCat record id: 28185434 English poet, critic, and novelist. From the description of Letter to an unknown recipient, ca. 1949. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817483 From the description of Photoprint and letter, n.d. and 1981 Oct...

Elborn, Geoffrey, 1950-

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Grigson, Geoffrey, 1905-1985

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Geoffrey Grigson was born at Pelynt, Cornwall and educated at Oxford. Though he published well-received poetry, he was better known as a critic and literary journalist. He was the founder of the modernist periodical New verse, 1933-1939, and wrote books on art, literature, and nature, and edited several anthologies. From the description of Geoffrey Grigson letter to Geoffrey Elborn, 1976 May 20. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 63664441 ...