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SMIJ/1/13
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Letter from Marius Bewley to James Smith
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- 9 Feb. 1941 (Creation)
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(1904-1972)
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[Excelsior Springs, Missouri.]—Qualifies the criticisms of the Church expressed in his last letter. Is returning to the seminary tomorrow in a state of distress arising from apparent trivialities, such as the ‘stupidity’ of the studies and the objectionable characters of the priests. Is praying that during the last half of the [academic] year an alternative will present itself that will take him out of America. Has read some of Hugh MacDiarmid’s poetry, but found it sickening. Birch Moody has moved to the medical corps, Wilfrid and Dennis are living quietly, and Bayliss, who was sent down for a drunken episode, is doing forestry work. The few of Leavis’s undergraduates who remain in Cambridge are miserable.
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- Bewley, Eugene Augustine Marius (1916–1973), American literary critic (Subject)
- Moody, Harold Leonard Birch (1919-2007), schoolteacher and educationist (Subject)
- Mellers, Wilfrid Howard (1914–2008), composer and musicologist (Subject)
- Enright, Dennis Joseph (1920-2002), poet and literary critic (Subject)
- Leavis, Frank Raymond (1895-1978), literary critic (Subject)
- Bayliss, Edward Norman (1919–1945), student of F. R. Leavis (Subject)