Jeffrey Wainwright

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 CPA/2/3/148
  • Former Reference
      GB 133 Sequence 2, Box 37 [89]
  • Dates of Creation
      20 Apr 1979-7 Jan 1980 & n.d.
  • Physical Description
      7 pieces; 8 sheets

Scope and Content

Correspondence with English poet Jeffrey Wainwright relating to: plans to reprint Wainwright's book [Heart's desire] in 1979; proof correction of Wainwright's contribution to the anthology British poetry since 1970 [edited by Schmidt and Peter Jones]; a possible change in the shape of the anthology due to space constraints; his near completion of a group of new poems; and his interest in reading a Paz article mentioned by Schmidt. In /6 Wainwright encloses a cutting of a review by John Vincent of D. Roberts's Paternalism in early Victorian England.

Dated at: Manchester.

Holograph and typescript.