Senior Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London. Professor Emeritus, University of Sheffield. Editor of the Letters of T. S. Eliot.
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John Haffenden retweeted
Remembering my dear colleague & friend, the poet Douglas Dunn, who died on Friday.
One of the greats. Colourful, gruff & very kind. Though he was v private, his poetry ought to be everywhere in Scotland’s public places.
Does anyone have knowledge of - access to - a poem by Sydney Goodsir Smith entitled "The Hallowe'en", please?
Douglas Dunn obituary: Scottish poet and academic - The Times - goo.gl/alerts/SLjY7P #GoogleAlerts
John Haffenden retweeted
Sorry to hear of Douglas Dunn’s death. Terry Street, about 1960s Hull, full of terrific reportage: ‘There are other worlds. There are other laws.’
Grateful for a great haul of 1st editions today, all from Collinge & Clark in Bloomsbury, London. The Robert Frost has an intro by Robert Graves. The Pursuit, by P. P. Graves, is one of the first long poems brought by T. S. Eliot to the new house of Faber & Faber in Sept. 1930.
Hundreds sign letter in support of Sally Rooney and Faber as they call for government action - goo.gl/alerts/7neUxn #GoogleAlerts
William Empson: Against the Christians by John Haffenden - review by Peter McDonald literaryreview.co.uk/types-o… via @Lit_Review
Bookshops in shock but support Sally Rooney and Faber after UK distribution ends - goo.gl/alerts/YdoSND #GoogleAlerts
John Haffenden retweeted
#OnThisDay in 1922, Eliot’s literary journal, The Criterion, was born.
The first number featured contributions by Dostoevsky, May Sinclair and the editor himself, with ‘The Waste Land’.
Read this first number: bit.ly/4hOSm8A
#tseliot #thecriterion #thewasteland
The Joyce Archive at Reading - Catalogue and Contexts bloomsbury.com/uk/joyce-arch…
John McGahern, A Writing Life: Biography of literary giant who understood the human condition - goo.gl/alerts/mDZ7ea #GoogleAlerts
Photos: MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL in Rehearsal From Orange Tree Theatre | BroadwayWorld broadwayworld.com/westend/ar…
John Haffenden retweeted
During WW2 a bunker was constructed below Goodge Street tube station, completed in 1942, for use by the Allied forces, with this separate entrance in Chenies Street. Prior to D-Day it was used by the US Army Signal Corps (but not by General Eisenhower as is often stated).
Ulysses Medal: Renowned poet Paul Muldoon awarded UCD's highest honour - goo.gl/alerts/6agVHH #GoogleAlerts
French riot police waiting patiently for the action. Good-humoured secondary school students politely demonstrating.
“A champion of the team nature of great publishing” - one of the best things ever said about Jeffrey Archer, by his editor at Harper Collins, Kate Elton.
John Haffenden retweeted
A cabinet card portrait of T. S. Eliot, aged about 3, holding Toby the dog, c.1891.
#tseliot #vintagephotographs
EM Forster's Legacy of Connection: Unseen Memorabilia bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/wh…
