[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford194","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1974 Dec 7th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford194","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Honest Ulsterman, Padraic Fiacc, Wilfred Owen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford194","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford194.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffTrue,there are the other possibilities - mother,\nwife,mates. That would change the poem xx from a\nmore generalised \"A Poet Dying\" into \"Clifford\nDynent Dying\". Which might well be better. I may\nsay that the poem was written soon after his\ndeath and revised several times since. I've even\nmade a revision since I sent xxx the text to you.\nIt looks like being one that will need endless\nwork -- though what poem doesn't ? I am becoming\nmore and more perfectionist as an antidote to\nfluency, the poem-while-U-wait syndrome. For some\nyears what I was writing was too obvious,too\nliterary,too easily done. And I am being increas-\ninly captivated by the 'fascination of what's\ndifficult'.\n\nHU isn't bad for a provincial town half in xxxx\nruins. But I wonder whether the violence and\nuncertainty of life there isn't a stimulus to\nwriters,even though it creates problems for them\nin ordinary living. Fiacc's article in HIB may\ninterest you in this connection - please let me\nhave it back. They also use this week my piece on\nWilfred Owen ,with a large illustration. (Without\na 14-18 War what kind of poet wd Owen have been ?)\n\nSee you next Wed.\n\nLove to you both -\nRobert\n","Type":"Text"}}]