Lot 67
Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963) American poet and physician; posthumous winner (1963) of the Pulitzer prize for poetry. Autograph Letter Signed "Bill" on personal stationery, 4 pp, 10½x7¼", Rutherford, New Jersey, 16 March 1948. Fine. While recovering from an angina pectoris attack, he writes to critic and editor Eric Bentley, expressing admiration for Bentley's recently-published book Bernard Shaw and for Bentley himself. In part: " I don't know when I have been so entertainingly enlightened upon a literary subject of equal pith….I was particularly taken by the…philosophic warmth of your mind….Your book while scholarly…is human in a way unfamiliar to me in the occasional theses I read from the pens of American scholars whom I largely detest--the didactic asses…[T]his book [is] to me the best treatise on contemporary manners I think I have ever read…."
Estimated Value $800 - 1,200.
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