Correspondence with Harold Grier McCurdy [manuscript], 1977-1987.

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Correspondence with Harold Grier McCurdy [manuscript], 1977-1987.

Moffitt and McCurdy discuss poetic styles and composition, critique each other's poetry and exchange personal news. Topics include Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens, the modern preference for unrhymed poetry, Gnosticism and Moffitt's conversion from Hinduism to Catholicism.

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