[Rarebooks] FS: Fine, Early SIGNED Letter by Poet James Wright Praising Theodore Roethke

[Charles Agvent]

WRIGHT, James. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to John Crowe Ransom Praising 
Theodore Roethke. Seattle, 24 April 1954. Fine, single-spaced typed 
letter on one side of a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper to poet and teacher 
John Crowe Ransom SIGNED "Jim Wright" about permission to reprint a poem 
first published in THE KENYON REVIEW. Wright, 26 at the time, was a 
former student of Ransom's at Kenyon College and here talks about how 
engaging graduate school (the University of Washington) is. "You will be 
glad to hear that Mr. Roethke is apparently over the worst of his 
illness, and is teaching again. He is as brilliant and stimulating as 
ever. It is a curious experience to work in his class. He knows, 
mysteriously perhaps, a thousand practical ways of conveying to students 
the necessity for formal mastery in poetry. He is capable of taking 
fantastic pains with a single small exercise; and his exercises, even 
the small ones, are always difficult and engaging. Finally, I think he 
is the best reader of poetry I have ever heard, with the exception of 
Dylan Thomas." Pencil notation in upper blank margin by Ransom. About 
Fine. (#021336)        $1,000

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