Autograph Card Signed to Jon Stallworthy.
HEANEY Seamus (2010)
£500.00
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Passing the jealousy test
2 pages oblong 4to on stationery of 191 Strand Road, original mailing envelope with holograph address in Heaney's hand. March 2
A rich and dense card congratulating Stallworthy on his poem "War Poet" (not then published) - the card moves toward a climax of enthusiasm, mirrored by the increasingly small and cramped hand: "A feeling, as TSE might have it, of acute personal reminiscence informing the phantasmagoria . . . The Dante Terza and the Orphic form and the general 'grief and reason' all coming together in poetry. Passing the jealousy test. Making one believe in the art. You have done the Labour and deserve the opus that has come of it. Gaudeus gaudeo. Gratias argo."
Stock Code: 251195
