[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford233","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Apr 30th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford233","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Dundee, Goethe","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford233","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford233.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2 7 P C\n\n30 Apr 75\nreplied:2nd May\n\nMy bear Derek,\n\nThanks yrs of 28 Apr. Quick\ndelivery.\n\nI'm calling my Dundee talk - \"The\nEvolution of a Writer\"- my literary\ninfluences and examples of my own work.\nI'm leading in with a poem by Goethe\ntrans by Hamburger and ending with a\ntiny poem by Macdiarmid \u2014 not that\nthese were 'influences' but because they\nare apt.(Goethe is disputing the idea\nthat a writer can be 'self-made'.)\n\nDear old Harold Brooks,one of the\nnicest men I've met,and all the better\nfor his eccentricities! I've only seen\nhim a few times in London. I've the\nimpression his wife didn't want his old\npals around. He was a lecturer at\nQueen's,by the way,not a Prof. -- and\nI don't think he ever got a chair. x The\nactual Prof at Queens was a man far his\ninferior in every way - but not eccent-\nric. That's the way it goes. Harold is\nabsolutely right about LG. Even over F\nthis has been exemplified,but it's\ntiresome to go into detail about. Right\nat Birkbeck\n","Type":"Text"}}]