<> Letters to Stanford Greacen Estate 1977 Oct 17th LHL Wednesday, March 16, 2016 TIFF GreacenStanford319 Letter Goethe English https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford319 LHL LHL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford319.jpg LHL Archive 27 P. C. 17 Oct 77 replied: 20 Oct 77 My dear Derek, Thanks lor yrs of 14th. Sorry to hear you have a cold and hope it’s blown over by now. I simply dread another cold as I suffered so badly last winter/spring and have not even shaken off the effects on my throat. I saw an Indian doctor who gave me a nasal spray and I think this has helped a bit. So I sympathise. A little coldls nothing but a series of heavy ones is something else. The Fox poem was very nicely read xx at Matchlight last Thurs evg. The xxxxx first time I've heard someone read a Fox poem. Interested in yr Hugo Manning project. A man I respected very much though I never quite went for his poetry (perhaps the later work is better). I agree with you about THEY. The trouble with being friendly with writers is that sometimes one respects/likes the person, and not the work. And vice versa, I do NOT like George Barker but must admit the quality of some of his work. Haven't read Goethe's fantasy or indeed much of that great gent - von Goethe ( a snob like Shakespeare). There's a splendid novel about him by Thomas Mann: LOTTE IN WEIMAR. The only German I've been reading off and on in the last year is Hermann Hesse (some think he is a Swiss:he is a German who went to live in S'land). I've even persuaded Herta to read him in Text