<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1975 Apr 30th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford233 Letter Dundee, Goethe English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford233 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford233.jpg LHL Archive 2 7 P C 30 Apr 75 replied:2nd May My bear Derek, Thanks yrs of 28 Apr. Quick delivery. I'm calling my Dundee talk - "The Evolution of a Writer"- my literary influences and examples of my own work. I'm leading in with a poem by Goethe trans by Hamburger and ending with a tiny poem by Macdiarmid — not that these were 'influences' but because they are apt.(Goethe is disputing the idea that a writer can be 'self-made'.) Dear old Harold Brooks,one of the nicest men I've met,and all the better for his eccentricities! I've only seen him a few times in London. I've the impression his wife didn't want his old pals around. He was a lecturer at Queen's,by the way,not a Prof. -- and I don't think he ever got a chair. x The actual Prof at Queens was a man far his inferior in every way - but not eccent- ric. That's the way it goes. Harold is absolutely right about LG. Even over F this has been exemplified,but it's tiresome to go into detail about. Right at Birkbeck Text