[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford262","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Oct 4th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford262","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Denis Ireland, Nationalism","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford262","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford262.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff\n\n27 Pembridge Crescent, W.11\n\nFri\n4 Oct 75\nreplied:8th oct\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nDeny thanks yrs of yesterday. I'm glad\nyou think the review seems suitable. The\nbook is well produced and I hope it sells\nwell. I was particularly interested in\nreading Davidson, He could have been a\ngreat poet IF. . .\n\nYes,it\u2019s hard to believe Denis I has\ngone. He was the sort whom one believed\nwould always be there. And what a pity he\nspent his energies on politics in that\n\"fool-driven land\". Yeats was so right\nbasically to eschew politics. (Writing about\nit in a distanced way is another cup of\nIrish coffee.) Do you know which book of\nDenis Ireland's you saw FROM THE IRISH\nSHORE perhaps ? Let me know what it is,as\nI may already have it. The only difficulty\nI had with Denis is that I rated him highly\nas a literary man and as the literary man\nhe could have been. His politicking didn\u2019t\nreally interest me - some sort of mish-mash\nof nationalism and Social Credit. As you\nsay, I must write something about him some\ntime. (He's mentioned briefly in IRENE)\n\nI knew you wd hit it off with the\naffable Johnny St. J. The results of yr\n","Type":"Text"}}]