Correspondence from Stanley Snaith
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Correspondence from Stanley Snaith
Classmark: BC MS 20c Kirkup/3/5
Creator(s): Snaith, Stanley (1903-)
Date(s): 13 Jul 1950 - 15 Nov 1951
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/633999
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
Contains thirteen letters, one postcard and one christmas card from Stanley Snaith to James Kirkup.
The letters comment upon Kirkup's poetry including the 'Submerged Village', 'A Correct Compassion', 'The Premature Burial', 'The Forgotten Rite', 'Scarborough', 'The Narwhal', 'The Creation'; Kirkup's Gregory Fellowship at Leeds; various poets including Edwin Muir, Gordon Bottomley, Rupert Graves, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hal Summers, John Keats, Walter De La Mare, Robert Frost, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Anne Ridler, Tennyson; and Snaith's own work as a poet and librarian.
Included with the letters is a typescript copy of Snaith's poem 'Black Eyes and Lemonade' and 'To Emily Dickinson' [both with ms annotation]; and a typescript copy of Snaith's collection 'New Poems' which includes the poems 'The Encounter', 'The Hospital', 'Duino', 'The Hawthorn in the Bombed Church', 'Return to a Familiar Scene', 'The Mirror', 'Down', and 'To Thor Heyerdhal' [collection is inscribed to Kirkup and dated October 1950].
Biography or history
Stanley Snaith (1903 - 1976) was a librarian and poet.
Provenance
Correspondence from Snaith purchased from the Poetry Bookshop in December 1993.
Accessions Register no. B24589K - B24602K
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