Bill Blissett would conclude his performances of this project by reading the
letters some poets *would* have written him *if* they had replied (e.g., Eliot).
I'm not sure if the collection at Toronto includes these as well as the actual
letters: I hope so!
Joseph Black
Associate Director of Graduate Studies
Department of English
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University of Massachusetts
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Quoting Kenneth Gross <[log in to unmask]>:
> Yet once more...
>
> I recalled that Gordon Teskey once told me his teacher William
> Blissett had long ago been collecting materials about Spenser and
> modern poets. He wrote to English, Canadian, and American poets
> asking about Spenser's influence on their works. Checking online, I
> found a listing for a special collection at the University of Toronto
> Library, the "Blissett Collection," which contains all of the
> correspondence with poets between1953 and 1984 (including letters from
> Louise Bogan, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Robert Graves, and even
> John Masefield.) Here's a link to the catalog entry, with the names
> of the poets he wrote to:
>
> http://library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/blissett89.pdf
>
> I remember corresponding with Blissett myself a number of years ago,
> at a point when he had more or less given up the thought of writing
> this material up.
>
> And I'm SURE that Merrill's Changing Light at Sandover has some
> Spenser woven into it.
>
> Ken
>
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