Correspondence with and relating to English critic I.A. Richards, including some letters from his wife Dorothea. This relates to Richards's two Carcanet publications: Complementarities: uncollected essays (1977), originally published in America by Harvard University Press in 1976, including arrangements for obtaining sheets of the book from Harvard in 1976, its publication and a forthcoming review (/11, /25, /30, /37-41 and /44-50); and the volume New and selected poems (1978), including references to the selection and arrangement of poems for inclusion, revisions, the possibility of an American edition, Richards's pleasure at the finished volume, Anne Tibble's admiration of the poems, attempts by Richards to publicize the book in America, and his disappointment at the lack of reviews (/4-10, /12-13, /16-17, /24-25 and /27-29).
Other topics include: poems submitted to Schmidt for PN Review; Richards's book Why so, Socrates?, originally published by Cambridge University Press, which there were plans for Carcanet to reprint (/7-10, /12-13, /15 and /29); a visit to Manchester to give a lecture and to visit Carcanet in March 1977; Richards's work on a piece entitled 'Verse and Prose'; John Paul Russo, his biographer and the editor of Complementarities; his willingness to provide financial assistance to Carcanet Press; Richards's visits to the USA in 1977-1979, where he gave readings, received the Benjamin Franklin Medal, met Edgar Bowers, and missed meeting Donald Davie in California; Richards's admiration of Robert Wells's poetry; Lionel Knights's admiration of PN Review (/17); and broadcast recordings undertaken by Richards with Fraser Steel of the BBC.
The file includes poems by Richards as follows: 'The Terrorist' (photocopy typescript, /14); 'Lighting Fires in Snow', 'At the Mirror', 'To Be', 'Birthday Thoughts', 'Fellow Feeling', 'Near the Stove', 'Relaxed Terza Rima', 'Solitude', 'Future Intimative', 'Retirement', 'Not No', 'Retort', 'To Dumb Forgetfulness' and 'Dismission (all photocopied from published versions, /23); 'Ars Poetica' (holograph, /25). /42 is a published pamphlet of 'Verse v. Prose', the Presidential Address made by Richards to the English Association in 1978.
Dated at: Cambridge, England; Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Santa Barbara, California, USA.
Holograph.