[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford302","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1977 Sep 8th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford302","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Herta, Germany, The Standard, The Express, The Times","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford302","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford302.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff27 P. C.\n\n8th September 77\nReplied:12th Sept\n\nMy dear Derek,\n\nThanks for yrs of 6th.\n\nI am glad you are so busy with stories and I'll look\nforward to reading them. \"Blue:A Biography\" sounds good -\nevocative xxx you are obviously using the various symbols -\nrowing \"Blue\", Mary's colour,blue for depression (suicide).\nThe Masque suggests to me COMUS:A MASQUE. Milton thou should'st\nbe living at this hour etc.\n\nApart from seeing Herta twice this xxxxx summer (and also for\na few days before Easter) I saw a good deal of South Germany,\nsome of it for the first time. The concept of effort,of taking\ntrouble and doing things well lives on there. Hence prosperity\nthough of course they have their idiotic terrorists (most of them\nupper middle class - the German workers want none of it). I hope\nthe German Govt will take tough measures and stamp these people\nout. If not,they will have a terrible problem on their hands.\n\nI am glad you .like PLUCKING GEESE (the phrase ccmes in Saul\nBellow's \"Dangling Man\" - a folk-phrase in Montana,it seems). Yes,\nI seemm to be trying new things. Creativity is very strange. It\nseems to come on one unawares and even In the midst of problems.\nFor one thing,I haven't really recovered from my colds and cough\nof last winter-spring, and like you,I DREAD this coming winter.\n\nI can see no way of being with Herta on a permanent basis. xxx\nI have a lot of tiring teaching work and this,in some ways,gets\nharder net easier. Yet ideas for poems come fairly easily. Per-\nhaps it's a matter of trying to resolve one's problems in another\nmedium. But then if the problems are too great one can do little\nworth doing.\n\nDannie was in good voice last night at the 4th public reading\n(and a young man called Tim Dooley also read). Jack B came along\nand I think the evening went well. TIME OUT didn't appear so we\ngot no publicity there,thanks to strikers. I also hoped for a xxx\nmention in the STANDARD (also on strike). I wd like to see the\nSTANDARD x and EXPRESS close down in London and deprive these\nworkers of jobs (as you know,they are extremely highly paid,\nanyway);the Manchester workers are much more reasonable,probably\nxxxxxxx because joos are scarcer in the North.\n\nI've been in touch again with David Holbrook as a result of a\nletter or his in THE TIMES complaining about the financial plight\nof writers. It's incredible to hear that,despite his enormous\noutput,his earnings are too -low for him to pay tax. So he says.\nI've asked him if he would like to read at one of my pub-public\n\nmeetings. He's prolific even as a poet. Now if he were a typist\n","Type":"Text"}}]