Inscribed to Allen Tate
Poetry and Opinion.
Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois, 1950.
Price: $600.00
About the item
First edition. viii, 52pp. 1 vols. 12mo. A good copy, in torn dust jacket. Mullaly A 35.
Item #220706
Fine association copy, inscribed from one Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress to his successor:
"Dear Allen - I've tried to put the issue we talked about last summer. Where are you? My best as ever
Archie
Conway, Mass.
Aug. 2, 1950"
MacLeish's book treats the controversy over the decision (by the Fellows in American Letters of the Library of Congress) to award the Bollingen prize to Ezra Pound. Allen Tate was one of the judges, and supported the decision, as did Macleish.
