Price: £35
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1947
Stock Number: 63368
(Your basket is currently empty)Description: ink on paper, one with closed tear to top corner, pp. [2]; [2], 4to, sometime quarter-folded, a little creasing, good condition
Publication Details: 1947
Notes: Bottrall does his best to get off on the wrong foot, proffering 'a note to you via John Lehmann' on 21st September regarding 'your two charming poems in New Writing No. 31', which he proceeds to criticise quite thoroughly in terms of its success in carrying out the 'completely original' structure. The following letter attends to Tiller's points in reply, again submitting a lengthy exposition of his task - which can essentially be boiled down to his insistence that 'Intention is not enough'. Bottrall closes by hoping for further correspondence and the possibility of meeting when he is back in E...more
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