1. Reed, Henry. Radio Times (14 March 1952): 11.
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Description: Introduction to The Streets of Pompeii.
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Subjects: Play
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References: The Streets of Pompeii
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2. Reed, Henry, "'Tatty': The Year's New Word," Birmingham Post, 13 October 1937.
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Description: Discusses the history and usage of the word 'tatty'.
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Newspaper: 'Tatty': The Year's New Word
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Subjects: Review
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3. Reed, Henry. Afterword to Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac. New York: American Library, 1962.
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Book: Afterword to Père Goriot
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Subjects: Translation
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References: Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
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4. Reed, Henry. Afterword to Père Goriot, by Honoré de Balzac. New York: Signet Classic, 1981.
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Book: Afterword to Père Goriot
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Subjects: Translation
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References: Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
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5. Reed, Henry. "Ageing Passions." Review of The Complete Poems of Michelangelo, translated by Joseph Tusiana. Sunday Telegraph (London), 11 June 1961, 7.
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Description: Reed feels that Professor Tusiani's translations have "merely produced page after page of lifeless verse, often unscannable, and stuffed with many images and fantasies of his own."
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Newspaper: Ageing Passions
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Subjects: Review
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References: The Complete Poems of Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Joseph Tusiani
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6. Reed, Henry. "Antigone." Penguin New Writing 30 (1947): 97-99.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Antigone
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7. Reed, Henry. "Ars Poetica." Botteghe Oscure 2 (1948): 262-264.
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Description: This poem, a long meditation on regret, appears in Reed's Collected Poems as "De Arte Poetica."
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Subjects: Poem, Translation
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References: De Arte Poetica
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8. Reed, Henry. "Aubade for Coronation Morning." In A Garland for the Queen, music by Arthur Bliss. London: Stainer and Bell, 1953.
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Description: One of a group of modern madrigals set by Sir Arthur Bliss for the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Sound: Aubade for Coronation Morning
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Aubade
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9. Reed, Henry. "The Auction Sale." Encounter 11, no. 4 (October 1958): 49-55.
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Description: Restrained drama unfurls in this long, 300-line, Hardyesque poem about a country auction and the battle for a special painting. Originally published in Stephen Spender's Encounter, October 1958.
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Journal: The Auction Sale
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Auction Sale
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10. Reed, Henry. "The Auction Sale." Lot One (July 1983).
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Journal: The Auction Sale
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Auction Sale
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11. Reed, Henry. The Auction Sale. Warwick, England: Greville Press, 2006.
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Description: Reed's poem issued as part of the Greville Press Pamphlet series, with an introduction by Jon Stallworthy.
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Book: The Auction Sale ( 0954996771)
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Auction Sale
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12. Reed, Henry and Frank Duncan. "Audio of 'The Complete Lessons of the War'." The Poetry of Henry Reed. <http://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofparts/audio-visual.html>.
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Description: Listen to BBC recordings of Henry Reed and actor Frank Duncan reading "The Complete Lessons of the War."
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Sound: Audio of The Complete Lessons of the War
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Subjects: Biography, Criticism
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References: Naming of Parts, Judging Distances, Movement of Bodies, Unarmed Combat, Returning of Issue, Frank Duncan
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13. Reed, Henry. "The Blissful Land." Listener 91, no. 2351 (18 April 1974): 496.
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Journal: The Blissful Land
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Blissful Land
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14. Reed, Henry. "Bocca di Magra." Listener 93, no. 2403 (24 April 1975): 546.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Bocca di Magra
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15. Reed, Henry. "Books in General." Review of The Scarlet Tree, by Osbert Sitwell. New Statesman and Nation 32, no. 810 (31 August 1946): 155.
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Description: Reed's review of Osbert Sitwell's The Scarlet Tree (Macmillan, 1946).
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Journal: Books in General
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Subjects: Review
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References: Osbert Sitwell, The Scarlet Tree
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16. Reed, Henry. "Books in General." Review of Billy Budd, by Herman Melville. New Statesman and Nation 33, no. 847 (31 May 1947): 397.
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Description: Reed reviews a new edition of Melville's Billy Budd with an introduction by William Plomer (London: Lehmann, 1947).
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Journal: Books in General
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Subjects: Review
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References: Herman Melville, Billy Budd, William Plomer
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17. Reed, Henry. "Born for Death." Review of Curious Relations, by William d'Arfey. Listener 34, no. 882 (6 December 1945): 672.
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Description: Reed reviews d'Arfey's 'family history by a non-professional writer.'
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Subjects: Review
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References: William d'Arfey, Curious Relations, William Plomer
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18. Reed, Henry. "The Builders." Listener 22, no. 549 (20 July 1939): 143.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Builders
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19. Reed, Henry. A By-Election in the Nineties. BBC radio broadcast, 1951.
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Description: A lighthearted radio comedy, regarding a special election in a Hardyesque Dorchester.
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Play: A By-Election in the Nineties
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Subjects: Play
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References: A By-Election in the Nineties
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20. Reed, Henry. "Cabaco's Song." Music & Letters 34, no. 4 (October 1953): 314.
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Description: Originally part of Reed's Moby Dick: A Play for Radio from Herman Melville's Novel (Jonathan Cape, 1947).
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Cabaco's Song
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21. Reed, Henry. "The Candidate." Unpublished poem. Papers of Henry Reed. University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections. MS031. Birmingham, England.
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Description: Reed's personal papers contain a draft for this unpublished poem, not included in the Collected Poems.
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Manuscript: The Candidate
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Candidate
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22. Reed, Henry. "The Case for Maigret." Reviews of Maigret Hesitates and The Man on the Bench in the Barn, by Georges Simenon. Sunday Times (London), 2 August 1970: 22.
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Description: Reed reviews two translations of George Simenon's fiction.
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Newspaper: Case for Maigret, The
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Subjects: Review
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References: Georges Simenon, Maigret Hesitates, Lyn Moir, Man on the Bench in the Barn, The, Moura Budberg
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23. Reed, Henry. "The Changeling." Listener 43, no. 1095 (19 January 1950): 115.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Changeling
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24. Reed, Henry. "Chard Whitlow (Mr Eliot's Sunday Evening Postscript)." New Statesman and Nation 21, no. 533 (10 May 1941): 494.
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Description: Reed's famous parody of T.S. Eliot won a 1941 New Statesman and Nation contest.
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Subjects: Poem, Parody
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References: Chard Whitlow
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25. Reed, Henry. "Chrysothemis." New Writing and Daylight (Winter 1942-1943): 53-56.
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Description: The first appearance of Reed's long poem about the sister of Orestes and Electra includes a short biographical note.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Chrysothemis
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26. Reed, Henry. "Chrysothemis." Penguin New Writing 26 (1945): 98-100.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Chrysothemis
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27. Reed, Henry. Collected Poems. Edited and introduced by Jon Stallworthy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
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Description: The complete poems, collected from A Map of Verona and Lessons of the War, with selections of verse from Reed's radio plays, and including drafts and fragments never before published.
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Book: Collected Poems ( 0192122983)
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Subjects: Biography, Criticism, Poem
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28. Reed, Henry. Collected Poems. Edited and introduced by Jon Stallworthy, with a foreword by Frank Kermode. Manchester, England: Carcanet, 2007.
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Description: Reed's Collected Poems was re-issued in trade paperback in 2007, with Frank Kermode's 1991 review added as a new Foreword.
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Book: Collected Poems ( 1857549430)
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Subjects: Biography, Criticism, Poem
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References: Jon Stallworthy, Frank Kermode
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29. Reed, Henry. "The Complete Lessons of the War," 1965. Third Programme Radio Scripts, 1949-1978. 1055, box 1, folder 21, 2 copies. Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University. Atlanta, Georgia.
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Description: Archive contains many typescripts of radio plays produced by Douglas Cleverdon, including two copies of Reed's "The Complete Lessons of the War."
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Manuscript: The Complete Lessons of the War
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Subjects: Poem, Radio
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References: Naming of Parts, Judging Distances, Movement of Bodies, Unarmed Combat, Returning of Issue
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30. Reed, Henry. Contributor's File. BBC Written Archives Centre, London. Script Writer, 1C. 16 June 1955, 28 February 1956, 18 February 1958, 24 February 1958.
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Manuscript: Contributor's File
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Subjects: Miscellaneous
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31. Reed, Henry. Collected galleys, typescripts, and proofs. Richard L. Purdy Collection of Thomas Hardy. GEN MSS 111, Series VI, 805-809. Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, CT.
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Description: Richard L. Purdy's collection of Thomas Hardy material contains typescripts and corrected galleys of poems and radio plays by Reed.
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Manuscript: Corrected galleys, typescripts, and proofs
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Subjects: Biography, Poem, Play
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References: The Auction Sale, Bocca di Magra, Chard Whitlow, A Good Dream, The Interval, Summer
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32. Reed, Henry. "Monteverdi's Vespers." Letter to the editor. New Statesman and Nation 35, no. 883 (7 February 1948): 115.
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Description: An apologetic response to a previous letter from Dr. Hans Redlich.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Monteverdi, Hans Redlich
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33. Reed, Henry. Correspondence with Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1945-1950. University of Reading, Archives and Manuscripts. MS2446. Reading, England. 3 letters.
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Description: Three letters from Reed to the publisher of A Map of Verona and Moby Dick: A Play for Radio.
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Manuscript: Correspondence with Jonathan Cape
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Subjects: Biography, Poem, Play
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34. Reed, Henry. "Daly's." Review of Daly's: The Biography of a Theatre, by D. Forbes-Winslow. New Statesman and Nation 28, no. 714 (28 October 1944): 290-291.
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Description: Review of D. Forbes-Winslow's history of Daly's Theatre, London (London: W.H. Allen, 1944).
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Subjects: Review
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References: D. Forbes Winslow, Daly's
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35. Reed, Henry. Dedicatory letter to George D. Painter. In Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio. London, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: Dedicatory letter to George D. Painter in the collection Hilda Tablet and Others.
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Book: Dedication to Hilda Tablet and Others ( 0563101636)
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Subjects: Play, Biography
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References: A Very Great Man Indeed, The Private Life of Hilda Tablet, A Hedge, Backwards, The Primal Scene, As It Were
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36. Reed, Henry. "Deryck Guyler in 'Not a Drum Was Heard': The War Memoirs of General Gland." Radio Times, 1 May 1959, 41.
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Description: Includes a short, introductory note by Reed.
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Newspaper: Deryck Guyler in "Not a Drum Was Heard"
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Subjects: Play, Radio
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References: Not a Drum Was Heard
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37. Reed, Henry. "Did Shakespeare Go to Italy?" Radio Times, 24 October 1952, 7.
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Description: Reed 'explains how he has let his imagination play round the possibilities' of Shakespeare being inspired by a visit to Italy.
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Newspaper: Did Shakespeare Go to Italy?
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Subjects: Play, Radio
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References: The Great Desire I Had, William Shakespeare, Vincenzo Gonzaga
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38. Reed, Henry. "Discoveries About Hardy." Review of Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study, by Richard L. Purdy. Listener 52, no. 1344 (2 December 1954): 975.
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Description: Review of Purdy's Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study (London: Oxford University Press, 1954).
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Journal: Discoveries About Hardy
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Subjects: Review
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References: Thomas Hardy, Richard L. Purdy, Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study
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39. Reed, Henry. "The Door and the Window." Listener 32, no. 825 (2 November 1944): 488.
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Description: Reed's poem "The Door and the Window" appears here for the first time.
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Journal: The Door and the Window
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Subjects: Poem
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40. Reed, Henry. "The Door and the Window." Partisan Review 14, no. 5 (September-October 1947): 523.
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Journal: The Door and the Window
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Door and the Window
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41. Reed, Henry. "Early Life and Works of Thomas Hardy, 1840-1878." MA thesis, University of Birmingham. Birmingham, England. 1936.
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Manuscript: Early Life and Works of Thomas Hardy
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Subjects: Review
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References: Thomas Hardy
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42. Reed, Henry. "Ego in Flight." Review of Saint-Exupéry, by Marcel Migeo. Sunday Telegraph (London), 26 March 1961, 6.
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Description: Reed describes Migeo's biography of "Saint-Ex" as "authoritative" but "unorganized."
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Subjects: Review
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References: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Marcel Migeo
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43. Reed, Henry. "An Eliot Study." Review of "Four Quartets" Rehearsed: A Commentary on T.S. Eliot's Cycle of Poems, by Raymond Preston. New Statesman and Nation 31, no. 799 (15 June 1946): 434-435.
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Description: Review of "Four Quartets" Rehearsed: A Commentary on T.S. Eliot's Cycle of Poems by Raymond Preston (Sheed and Ward, 1946).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Raymond Preston, T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding, Four Quartets
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44. Reed, Henry. Emily Butter. Unpublished radio script. Broadcast on BBC Third Programme, 1955.
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Description: A mostly-operatic performance by an almost entirely female cast, this 1954 play was conceived as a composition by Reed's Hilda Tablet character.
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Subjects: Play
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References: Emily Butter
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45. Reed, Henry. "The End of an Impulse." New Writing and Daylight (Summer 1943): 111-123.
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Description: Reed describes the new, lyric poetry of Auden, Spender, and Day-Lewis.
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Journal: The End of an Impulse
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Subjects: Review
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References: W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, C. Day Lewis
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46. Reed, Henry. The English Novel Since 1939. Berlin: Cornelsenverlag, 1949.
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Description: German edition of Reed's critical pamphlet for the British Council.
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Book: The English Novel Since 1939
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Subjects: Review
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References: The Novel Since 1939
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47. Reed, Henry. "Epilogue." Time and Tide 26, no. 30 (28 July 1945): 622.
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Description: This poem appears in A Map of Verona as "Envoy."
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Subjects: Poem
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48. Reed, Henry. "An Essential Voice." BBC broadcast, 12 January 1975.
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Description: Broadcast of a Leopardi anthology, including "La Ginestra."
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Radio: An Essential Voice
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Subjects: Poem, Translation
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References: La Ginestra
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49. Reed, Henry. "Fine Tenor Bell." Review of Thomas Hardy's Notebooks, edited by Evelyn Hardy. Listener 64, no. 1396 (1 December 1955): 955.
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Description: Review of Hardy's Notebooks, and Some Letters from Julia Augusta Martin, edited by Evelyn Hardy. (London: Hogarth Press, 1955).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Thomas Hardy, Evelyn Hardy, Thomas Hardy's Notebooks, and Some Letters from Julia Martin
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50. Reed, Henry. "For Younger Readers." Review of Our Exploits at West Poley, by Thomas Hardy. Listener 48, no. 1232 (9 October 1952): 599-600.
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Description: Reed believes this new edition will "scarcely" make Hardy's book a children's classic, but believes 'there is some small sort of eternal summer about it."
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Journal: For Younger Readers
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Subjects: Review
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References: Thomas Hardy, Our Exploits at West Poley
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51. Reed, Henry. Foreword to The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971. Unpaged.
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Description: Reed's foreword to his collection of radio drama The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio.
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Book: Foreword to The Streets of Pompeii
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Subjects: Play, Biography
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References: The Unblest, The Monument, The Streets of Pompeii, Return to Naples, The Great Desire I Had, Vincenzo
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52. Reed, Henry. Foreword to Three Plays by Ugo Betti. London: Gollancz, 1956.
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Book: Foreword to Three Plays by Ugo Betti
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Subjects: Play, Translation, Review
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References: Henry Reed, Foreword to Three Plays by Ugo Betti, Ugo Betti
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53. Reed, Henry. Foreword to Three Plays by Ugo Betti. New York: Grove Press, 1958. 5-8.
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Description: Reed's 'brief non-critical account of Betti's progress through his quarter-century of playwriting,' with some biographical details of the Italian poet and author.
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Book: Foreword to Three Plays by Ugo Betti
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Subjects: Translation, Play, Review
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References: Henry Reed, The Burnt Flower-Bed, Summertime, Ugo Betti, The Queen and the Rebels, Foreword to Three Plays by Ugo Betti
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54. Reed, Henry. "Four People." Listener 92, no. 2386 (19/26 December 1974): 848-849.
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Subjects: Poem
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55. Reed, Henry. "From the Sow's Ear." Review of A Pelican at Blandings, by P.G. Wodehouse. Sunday Times (London), 28 September 1969, 62.
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Description: Reed ranks Wodehouse's novel 'very highly,' and calls it 'incomparably funny.'
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Newspaper: From the Sow's Ear
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Subjects: Review
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References: P.G. Wodehouse, A Pelican at Blandings, Osbert Lancaster
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56. Reed, Henry. "A Good Dream." Sunday Times (London), 4 January 1970, 69.
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Description: Reed's poem "A Good Dream" is published for the first time.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: A Good Dream
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57. Reed, Henry. The Great Desire I Had. In The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: In this radio play from 1952, Reed imagines Shakespeare visiting 16th century Mantua, and receiving inspiration from Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga.
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Play: The Great Desire I Had
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Subjects: Play
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References: The Great Desire I Had
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58. Reed, Henry. "Hardy's Secret Self-Portrait." Review of The Life of Thomas Hardy, by Florence Emily Hardy. Sunday Telegraph (London), 25 March 1962, 6.
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Description: Reed says this disguised autobiography is a "ramshackle work," but is still "packed with a miscellany of information not available elsewhere, and readers who care for Hardy will find it everywhere endearing, engaging, and full of his characteristic humour."
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Newspaper: Hardy's Secret Self-Portrait
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Subjects: Review
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References: Thomas Hardy, The Life of Thomas Hardy, Florence Emily Hardy
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59. Reed, Henry. A Hedge, Backwards. In Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio. London, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: Another in the Hilda Tablet sequence, the biographer is confounded by relatives of his subject, including a brother-in-law, General Gland, played by Derek Guyler. Broadcast in 1956.
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Subjects: Play
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References: A Hedge, Backwards
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60. Reed, Henry. "'Henry James, Jr....'." Review of Henry James: The Untried Years, 1843-1870, by Leon Edel. Listener 49, no. 1269 (25 June 1953): 1059-1060.
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Description: Reed's review of Edel's Henry James: The Untried Years (London: Hart-Davis, 1953).
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Journal: Henry James, Jr....
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Subjects: Review
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References: Henry James, Leon Edel, Henry James: The Untried Years
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61. Reed, Henry. "Henry Reed, New Statesman and Nation, 23 June 1945, 408-9." Review of Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh. In Evelyn Waugh: The Critical Heritage, edited by Martin Stannard. London: Routledge, 1984. 239-241.
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Description: Reed's 1945 New Statesman review of Waugh's Brideshead Revisited is included in this critical text.
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Anthology: Henry Reed, New Statesman and Nation ( 0710095481)
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Subjects: Review
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References: Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
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62. Reed, Henry. "Hiding Beneath the Furze." In A Map of Verona and Other Poems. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947. 23.
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Book: Hiding Beneath the Furze
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Hiding Beneath the Furze
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63. Reed, Henry. Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: Collection of Reed's radio drama for the BBC, including A Very Great Man Indeed, The Private Life of Hilda Tablet, A Hedge, Backwards, and The Primal Scene, As It Were.
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Book: Hilda Tablet and Others
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Subjects: Play
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References: A Very Great Man Indeed, The Private Life of Hilda Tablet, A Hedge, Backwards, The Primal Scene, As It Were
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64. Reed, Henry. "Homage to Dame HildaOr Swann's Way." Radio Times, 23 October 1959, 6.
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Description: Reed 'offers a few well-chosen words about "Musique Discrète.'
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Newspaper: Homage to Dame Hilda
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Subjects: Play, Radio
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References: Musique Discrète, Donald Swann
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65. Reed, Henry. "Questionnaire: The Cost of Letters." Horizon 14, no. 81 (September 1946): 139, 140, 162-164.
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Description: Reed's answer to a questionnaire about life as a writer.
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Subjects: Biography
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66. Reed, Henry. "An Hour In the Hand." Review of Happy as Larry, by Donagh MacDonagh. The Bell 13, no. 1 (October 1946): 76-78.
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Description: MacDonagh's play is 'written in a manner which is to-day usually reserved for radio-features,' and 'is probably a better play for the study than for the theatre.'
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Journal: An Hour In the Hand
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Subjects: Review
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References: Donagh MacDonagh, Happy as Larry
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67. Reed, Henry. "'If and Perhaps and But'." Listener 49, no. 1268 (18 June 1953): 1017-1018.
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Description: Reed's radio essay on Eliot's critical prose, in the light of publication of the Selected Prose.
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Journal: If and Perhaps and But
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Subjects: Review
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References: T.S. Eliot, John Hayward, Selected Prose
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68. Reed, Henry. "'If and Perhaps and But'." Letter to the editor. Listener 50, no. 1272 (16 July 1953): 105.
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Description: Response to Jones' letter to the editor of July 2nd, regarding Reed's radio talk on Eliot.
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Journal: If and Perhaps and But
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Subjects: Review
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References: T.S. Eliot, David Jones
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69. Reed, Henry. "Il Migglior Fabbro." Review of Four Quartets, by T.S. Eliot. Time and Tide (9 December 1944): 1088.
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Description: Reed was identified as the author of this unsigned review in the January 13, 1945 Notes and Queries.
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Journal: Il Miglior Fabbro
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Subjects: Review
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References: T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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70. Reed, Henry. "Imitation." Listener 43, no. 1116 (15 June 1950): 1016.
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Description: Reed imitates both Arnauld and Leopardi.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Imitation, Giacomo Leopardi, Antoine Arnauld
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71. Reed, Henry. "The Interval." Listener 82, no. 2122 (27 November 1969): 763.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Interval
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72. Reed, Henry. Interview with Peter Orr. The Poet Speaks. British Council recording, no. 1638. 11 June 1970. Co-sponsored by the British Council and the Woodberry Poetry Room in the Lamont Library of Harvard University. TAPE ARCHIVE PR6035.E32 Z5 1970x, Woodberry Poetry Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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Description: Henry Reed speaks with Peter Orr of the British Council, as part of the series The Poet Speaks.
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Sound: Interview with Peter Orr
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Subjects: Biography
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References: Peter Orr
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73. Reed, Henry. Introduction to Dialstone Lane, by W.W. Jacobs. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947. v-viii.
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Description: Reed writes high praise for W.W. Jacobs, author of "The Monkey's Paw," for his precision and economy of style, in this 1947 introduction to one of his longer stories.
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Chapter: Introduction to Dialstone Lane
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Subjects: Biography, Review
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References: W.W. Jacobs, Dialstone Lane
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74. Reed, Henry. "Iseult Blaunchesmains." Listener 30, no. 781 (30 December 1943): 756.
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Description: Reed's poem "Iseult Blaunchesmains," part of his "Tingagel" series, is published here for the first time.
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Journal: Iseult Blaunchesmains
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Iseult Blaunchesmains
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75. Reed, Henry. "Iseult La Belle." Penguin New Writing 23 (1945): 104-105.
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Subjects: Poem
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76. Reed, Henry. "Italics Mine." Review of T.S. Eliot: A Study of His Writings by Several Hands, and Fabulous Voyager: James Joyce's Ulysses. New Statesman and Nation 35, no. 891 (3 April 1948): 278.
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Description: Reviews of two critical studies: T.S. Eliot: A Study of His Writings by Several Hands (Balachandra Rajan, ed. London: Dobson, 1947), and Fabulous Voyager: James Joyce's Ulysses (Richard M. Kain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947).
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Subjects: Review
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References: T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, Ulysses, Balachandra Rajan, Richard M. Kain
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77. Reed, Henry. "James in the Stalls." Review of The Scenic Art, by Henry James. Listener 42, no. 1081 (13 October 1949): 645.
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Description: Reed's review of James' The Scenic Art: Notes on Acting and the Drama, 1872-1901, edited by Allen Wade and Rupert Hart-Davis (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1948).
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Review: James in the Stalls
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Subjects: Review
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References: Henry James, The Scenic Art
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78. Reed, Henry. "James Joyce: The Triple Exile." Listener 43, no. 1102 (9 March 1950): 437-439.
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Description: Reed radio talk on the nature of Joyce's art, and his effect on the English novel.
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Journal: James Joyce: The Triple Exile
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: James Joyce, Ulysses, Finnegan's Wake
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79. Reed, Henry. "Joyce's Progress." Orion 4 (Autumn 1947): 131-146.
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Description: Written as an lecture to the Oxford University English Club in 1946, Reed posits Joyce as "progressing" away from three things: his family, Dublin, and the Catholic Church.
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Journal: Joyce's Progress
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Subjects: Review
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References: James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man, Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, G.D. Painter, Rosamond Lehmann, Denys Kilham Roberts, C. Day Lewis
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80. Reed, Henry. "Judging Distances." Translated by Nahoum Cohen. KiltARTan Virtual Publishing. <http://www.kiltartan.co.il/poetry/reed.html>.
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Description: Henry Reed's poem "Judging Distances" translated into Hebrew.
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Subjects: Link
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References: Judging Distances, Nahoum Cohen
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81. Reed, Henry. "Judging Distances." New Statesman and Nation 25, no. 628 (6 March 1943): 155.
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Description: The first appearance in print of the second of Reed's "Lessons of the War."
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Journal: Judging Distances
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Judging Distances
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82. Reed, Henry. "Judging Distances: A Poem from the Forces." New Statesman & Society 6, no. 247 (9 April 1993): 26.
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Description: Reprints "Judging Distances" for a 50th anniversary of World War II.
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Journal: Judging Distances
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Judging Distances, Alun Lewis, Troopship in the Tropics
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83. Reed, Henry. "King Mark." Orion 1 (1945): 103-104.
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Description: Part III of Reed's Tintagel sequence, this poem was inspired by Gottfried von Strassburg's epic, Tristan.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: King Mark
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84. Reed, Henry. "L'Enfer, c'est Moi." Review of A Season in Hell, by Arthur Rimbaud. Translated by Norman Cameron. Listener 43, no. 1108 (20 April 1950): 703.
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Description: Review of Norman Cameron's translation of Rimbaud's Une Saison en Enfer (London: John Lehmann, 1949).
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Review: L'Enfer, c'est Moi
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Subjects: Review, Translation
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References: Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell, Norman Cameron
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85. Reed, Henry. "L'Envoi." London Review of Books, 12 September 1991, 18.
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Description: Poem published as part of Jon Stallworthy's "A Life of Henry Reed."
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Subjects: Poem
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References: L'Envoi
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86. Reed, Henry. "Leading a Dance." Review of Fokine: Memoirs of a Ballet Master, translated by Vitale Fokine. Sunday Telegraph (London), 26 November 1961, 6.
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Description: Reed finds Fokine's memoirs "very absorbing and intelligent."
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Newspaper: Leading a Dance
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Subjects: Review
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References: Michel Fokine, Fokine: Memoirs of a Ballet Master, Vitale Fokine, Anatole Chujoy
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87. Reed, Henry. Lessons of the War. New York: Chilmark Press, 1970.
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Description: The five collected "Lessons of the War" poems.
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Subjects: Poem
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88. Reed, Henry. Letter to Edith Sitwell. Dame Edith Sitwell Collection, 1904-1964. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center. University of Texas at Austin. 99.2. Austin Texas.
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Description: A letter from Reed to the poet Edith Sitwell.
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Manuscript: Letter to Edith Sitwell
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Subjects: Biography
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References: Edith Sitwell
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89. Reed, Henry. Letter to Kingsley Martin. Kingsley Martin Archive. University of Sussex Library, Special Collections. Brighton, England.
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Description: Collection of Martin's correspondence includes a letter from Reed.
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Manuscript: Letter to Kinglsey Martin
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Subjects: Biography, Link
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References: Kingsley Martin
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90. Reed, Henry. Letter to L.P. Hartley. L.P. Hartley Papers. John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Special Collections. 3/1. Manchester, England.
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Description: A letter from Reed to the author of The Shrimp and the Anemone.
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Manuscript: Letter to L.P. Hartley
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Subjects: Biography
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References: L.P. Hartley
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91. Reed, Henry. Letter to Oscar Williams (carbon), 17 April 1963. Williams, Oscar Mss. Lilly Library Manuscripts Department. Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
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Manuscript: Letter to Oscar Williams
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Subjects: Biography
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References: Oscar Williams
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92. Reed, Henry. Letter to Robin Skelton, 1963. University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections, SC114. Victoria, British Columbia.
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Manuscript: Letter to Robin Skelton
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Subjects: Biography
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References: Robin Skelton
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93. Reed, Henry. Letter to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, 1955. The Cockerell Papers. British Library, Department of Manuscripts. GB ADD MS 0058 52745. London, England.
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Manuscript: Letter to Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
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Subjects: Biography
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References: Sydney Carlyle Cockerell
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94. Reed, Henry. Letter to T.S. Eliot,1948. Papers of the Hayward Bequest of T.S. Eliot Material. GBR/0272/HB/L/7/b. King's College Archive Centre, Cambridge, England.
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Description: A collection of T.S. Eliot material contains a letter from Reed.
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Manuscript: Letter to T.S. Eliot
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Subjects: Link, Biography
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References: T.S. Eliot
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95. Reed, Henry. Letter to the editor. Listener 33, no. 840 (15 February 1945): 185.
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Description: Part of a lengthy exchange of letters over Reed's pair of "Poetry in War Time" articles, published in the Listener in January, 1945.
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Journal: Letter to the editor
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Subjects: Review
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References: Poetry in War Time, George Richards, Geoffrey Grigson
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96. Reed, Henry. Letter to the editor. Listener 33, no. 843 (8 March 1945): 271.
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Description: Part of a lengthy exchange of letters over Reed's pair of "Poetry in War Time" articles, published in the Listener in January, 1945.
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Journal: Letter to the editor
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Subjects: Criticism
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References: Poetry in War Time, N.C. Hunter, George Richards
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97. Reed, Henry. Letter to the editor. Listener 33, no. 845 (22 March 1945): 324.
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Description: Part of a lengthy exchange of letters over Reed's pair of "Poetry in War Time" articles, published in the Listener in January, 1945.
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Journal: Letter to the editor
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Subjects: Criticism
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References: George Richards, William Bliss, Poetry in War Time
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98. Reed, Henry. Letter to the editor, 15 December 1947. New Statesman Archive, Editorial Correspondence, c. 1948-1952 (Boxes 7-9). University of Sussex Library, Special Collections. Brighton, England.
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Description: Possible response to Poston's letter to The New Statesman and Nation of December 10th, 1947.
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Manuscript: Letter to the editor
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Subjects: Biography
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99. Reed, Henry. Letters to Emyr Humphreys, 1947-1949. National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records. AI/1957-8. Cymru, Wales.
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Description: Reed's letters to Welsh author Emyr Humphreys, who was a producer of drama at the BBC.
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Manuscript: Letters to Emyr Humphreys
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Subjects: Biography
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References: Emyr Humphreys
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100. Reed, Henry. Letters to Graham Greene, 1947-1948. Graham Greene Papers,
1807-1999. Boston College, John J. Burns Library, Archives and Manuscripts Department, MS.1995.003. Chestnut Hill, MA.
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Description: Letters from Reed to Graham Greene, including one from December, 1947 Reed included in an inscribed copy of A Map of Verona (1947).
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Manuscript: Letters to Graham Greene, 1947-1948
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Subjects: Biography
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References: Graham Greene, A Map of Verona
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101. Reed, Henry. Letters to Michael Ramsbotham, 1944-1985. Henry Reed Papers. University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections. 9/1&3. Birmingham, England.
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Description: More than 70 items of personal correspondence from Reed are housed in Birmingham University's Special Collections department.
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Manuscript: Letters to Michael Ramsbotham
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Subjects: Biography
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References: Michael Ramsbotham
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102. Reed, Henry. Letters to Rona Laurie, 1935-1936. University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections. L. Add. 5965-5970. Birmingham, England.
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Description: Letters and poems from Reed to actress and voice coach Rona Laurie.
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Manuscript: Letters to Rona Laurie
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Subjects: Biography
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References: Rona Laurie
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103. Reed, Henry. Letters to William Plomer, 1945-1949. Plomer Collection. Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections. PLO/181/1-18. Durham, England.
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Description: Collection contains 18 letters from Reed to the author William Plomer.
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Manuscript: Letters to William Plomer
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Subjects: Biography, Link
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References: William Plomer
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104. Reed, Henry. "Liberal Rhymes for Liberal Times." Unpublished poem. Papers of Henry Reed. University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections. MS031. Birmingham, England.
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Description: Reed's personal papers contain a draft for this unpublished poem, not included in the Collected Poems.
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Manuscript: Liberal Rhymes for Liberal Times
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Liberal Rhymes for Liberal Times
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105. Reed, Henry. "Lorca Again." Review of García Lorca, by Edwin Honig. New English Review 11, no. 8 (December 1945): 759-760.
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Description: A decidedly negative review: 'His study of Lorca is very badly written....'
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Subjects: Review
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References: García Lorca, Edwin Honig
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106. Reed, Henry. "Maigret's Master." Reviews of Maigret in Court, and The Premier, by Georges Simenon. Sunday Telegraph (London), 14 May 1961, 7.
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Description: Reed finds the translation of Simenon's The Premiere "fortunate," but not so for Maigret in Court, which is "crude" at best.
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Newspaper: Maigret's Master
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Subjects: Review
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References: George Simenon, Maigret in Court, Robert Brain, The Premier, Daphne Woodward
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107. Reed, Henry. "The Making of a Poem: Henry Reed on 'Gerontion' by T.S. Eliot." BBC radio, London. 27 September 1946.
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Radio: The Making of a Poem
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Subjects: Review
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References: T.S. Eliot, Gerontion
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108. Reed, Henry. "The Making of 'The Dynasts'." Penguin New Writing 18 (1943): 136-147.
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Description: Reed's reflections on the creation of Hardy's epic poem, The Dynasts.
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Journal: The Making of The Dynasts
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Subjects: Review
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References: The Dynasts, Thomas Hardy
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109. Reed, Henry. "A Map of Verona." Listener 27, no. 687 (12 March 1942): 343.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: A Map of Verona
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110. Reed, Henry. "A Map of Verona." Listener 51, no. 1298 (14 January 1954): 103, 105.
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Description: Reed's "A Map of Verona" was chosen by J.R. Ackerley to be reprinted for The Listener's 25th anniversary issue.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: A Map of Verona
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111. Reed, Henry. A Map of Verona and Other Poems. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947.
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Description: American edition of Reed's first poetry collection.
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Book: A Map of Verona and Other Poems
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Subjects: Poem
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112. Reed, Henry. A Map of Verona: Poems. London: Jonathan Cape, 1946.
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Description: Reed's first collection of poetry.
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Book: A Map of Verona: Poems
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Subjects: Poem
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113. Reed, Henry. "Mary O'Farrell and Hugh Burden in 'The Private Life of Hilda Tablet': A Parenthesis for Radio." Radio Times, 21 May 1954, 19.
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Description: Reed contributes a brief introduction.
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Newspaper: Mary O'Farrell and Hugh Burden in The Private Life of Hilda Tabler
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Subjects: Play, Radio
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References: The Private Life of Hilda Tablet
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114. Reed, Henry. "Max Gate: Memories of Hardy's Home." Birmingham Post, 15 June 1938.
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Newspaper: Max Gate: Memories of Hardy's Home
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Subjects: Biography
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References: Thomas Hardy
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115. Reed, Henry. Moby Dick: A Play for Radio from Herman Melville's Novel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1947.
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Description: Reed's adaptation of Melville's novel for BBC radio had a cast which included Sir Ralph Richardson as Ahab, Cyril Cusack, and Bernard Miles.
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Subjects: Play
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References: Moby Dick, Herman Melville
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116. Reed, Henry. Moby Dick. Music by Anthony Hopkins. 2 audio cassettes. London: BBC, 1980.
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Subjects: Miscellaneous
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References: Moby Dick
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117. Reed, Henry. Leopardi, Part II: The Monument. In The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: Taking place eight years after The Unblest, Leopardi is a renowned poet, but suffers from unrequited love. Broadcast in 1950.
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Subjects: Play
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References: Monument
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118. Reed, Henry. "Morning." Listener 32, no. 811 (27 July 1944): 96.
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Description: First publication of Reed's poem, "Morning."
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Morning
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119. Reed, Henry. "Movement of Bodies." Listener 43, no. 1106 (6 April 1950): 609.
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Journal: Movement of Bodies
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Movement of Bodies
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120. Reed, Henry. "Mr. Eliot's Classic." New Statesman and Nation 30, no. 756 (18 August 1945): 113.
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Description: Reed's review of T.S. Eliot's What is a Classic? An Address Delivered Before the Virgil Society on the 16th of October, 1944. (London: Faber & Faber, 1945.)
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Journal: Mr. Eliot's Classic
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Subjects: Review
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References: What is a Classic?, T.S. Eliot
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121. Reed, Henry. "Mum's the Word." Reviews of Hamlet and dipus by Ernest Jones, and Character and Motive in Shakespeare by J.I.M. Stewart. Listener 41, no. 1066 (30 June 1949): 1129.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Ernest Jones, Hamlet and Oedipus, J.I.M. Stewart, Character and Motive in Shakespeare
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122. Reed, Henry. Musique Discrète. Unpublished radio script. Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, 1959.
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Description: A request programme of compositions by Dame Hilda Tablet, broadcast in 1959.
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Subjects: Play
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References: Musique Discrète
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123. Reed, Henry. Mycenae. Proposed radio script. Papers of Henry Reed. University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections. MS031. Birmingham, England.
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Description: Reed's notebooks contain a draft of this unpublished radio play.
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Subjects: Play
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References: Mycenae
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124. Reed, Henry. "Naming of Parts." New Statesman and Nation 24, no. 598 (8 August 1942): 92.
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Description: Reed's best-known poem appeared in 1942 with the subtitle "A Poem from the Forces."
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Naming of Parts
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125. Reed, Henry. "Naming of Parts: A Poem from the Forces." New Statesman and Society 4, no. 162 (2 August 1991): 27.
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Description: The New Statesman reprinted Reed's most famous poem for a World War II retrospective.
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Journal: Naming of Parts: A Poem from the Forces
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Naming of Parts
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126. Reed, Henry. "New Fiction." Reviews of The Demon Lover by Elizabeth Bowen, To the Boating by Inez Holden, and First Impressions by Isobel Strachey. New Statesman and Nation 30, no. 767 (3 November 1945): 302.
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Description: Reed's reviews of Bowen's short story collection, The Demon Lover, and Other Stories (London: Jonathan Cape, 1945), others.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Elizabeth Bowen, The Demon Lover, Inez Holden, To the Boating, Isabel Strachey, First Impressions
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127. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of The Friendly Young Ladies, The Power House, Wild River, and So Immortal a Flower. New Statesman and Nation 28, no. 712 (14 October 1944): 256-257.
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Description: Of Mary Renault's The Friendly Young Ladies (Longmans, Green, 1944), Reed wonders 'precisely how friendly the young ladies have been to each other.'
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Subjects: Review
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References: Mary Renault, The Friendly Young Ladies, The Middle Mist, Alex Comfort, The Power House, Anna Louise Strong, Wild River, Cecil Roberts, So Immortal a Flower
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128. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of A Walk in the Sun, Fair Stood the Wind for France, and Men Die Alone. New Statesman and Nation 28, no. 719 (2 December 1944): 374.
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Description: Reed reviews current fiction.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Harry Brown, A Walk in the Sun, H.E. Bates, Fair Stood the Wind for France, Michael Leigh, Men Die Alone
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129. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Then a Soldier by Geoffrey Cotterell, The North Wind of Love by Compton Mackenzie, and Avalanche by Kay Boyle. New Statesman and Nation 29, no. 730 (17 February 1945): 112.
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Description: Reed reviews the novels Then a Soldier, The North Wind of Love, and Avalanche.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Geoffrey Cotterell, Then a Soldier, Compton Mackenzie, The North Wind of Love, Kay Boyle, Avalanche
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130. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Loving by Henry Green, The Light in the Dust by Willy Goldman, and The Royal Game by Stefan Zweig. New Statesman and Nation 29, no. 741 (5 May 1945): 292.
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Description: Reed reviews new fiction by Henry Green, Willy Goldman, and Stefan Zweig.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Henry Green, Loving, Willy Goldman, The Light in the Dust, Stefan Zweig, The Royal Game
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131. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Odd Man Out, Seven Times the Leading Man, A Fugue in Time, and An Ape, a Dog, and a Serpent. New Statesman and Nation 29, no 747 (16 June 1945): 392-393.
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Description: Reed reviews new fiction by F.L. Green, Egon Hostovsky, Rumer Godden, and Gerald Kersh.
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Subjects: Review
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References: F.L. Green, Odd Man Out, Egon Hostovsky, Seven Times the Leading Man, Rumer Godden, A Fugue in Time, Gerald Kersh, An Ape, A Dog, and a Serpent
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132. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, Household in Athens by Glenway Wescott, and I Will Be Good by Hester W. Chapman. New Statesman and Nation 29, no. 748 (23 June 1945): 408-409.
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Description: Includes Reed's review of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited (London: Chapman and Hall, 1945), among others.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Glenway Wescott, Household in Athens, Hester W. Chapman, I Will Be Good
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133. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of In This Thy Day, The Elderbrook Brothers, Goon in the Block, and Valley of the Sky. New Statesman and Nation 30, no. 761 (22 September 1945): 200-201.
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Description: Reed reviews new fiction by Michael McLaverty, Gerald Bullett, Eric Williams, and Hobert Douglas Skidmore.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Michael McLaverty, In This Thy Day, Gerald Bullett, The Elderbrook Brothers, Eric Williams, Goon in the Block, Hobert Douglas Skidmore, Valley of the Sky
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134. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Final Score, Mine Own Executioner, The English Teacher, and At Mrs. Lippincote's. New Statesman and Nation 30, no. 764 (13 October 1945): 249-250.
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Description: Reviews of new fiction includes Balchin's Mine Own Executioner (London: Collins, 1945), and R.K. Narayan's The English Teacher (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1945).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Warren Beck, Final Score, Nigel Balchin, Mine Own Executioner, R.K. Narayan, The English Teacher, Elizabeth Taylor, At Mrs. Lippincote's
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135. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of The House in Clewe Street by Mary Lavin, Dead Ground by Howard Clewes, and The White Rock by Denys Val Baker. New Statesman and Nation 30, no. 773 (15 December 1945): 412-413.
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Description: Reed reviews new fiction by Mary Lavin, Howard Clewes, and Denys Val Baker.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Mary Lavin, The House in Clewe Street, Howard Clewes, Dead Ground, The White Rock, Denys Val Baker
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136. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of The Pursuit of Love, Of Many Men, and The Crater's Edge. New Statesman and Nation 31, no. 780 (2 February 1946): 89-90.
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Description: Reviews of Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love (Hamish Hamilton, 1945), James Aldridge's Of Many Men (Michael Joseph, 1946), and Stephen Bagnall's The Crater's Edge (Hamish Hamilton, 1945).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Nancy Mitford, James Aldridge, Stephen Bagnall
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137. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Spanish Portrait, The Trip to London, What Farrar Saw, and Bitten by the Tarantula. New Statesman and Nation 31, no. 784 (2 March 1946): 160.
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Description: Reviews of Elizabeth Lake's Spanish Portrait (Pilot, 1945), Rhys Davies' The Trip to London (Heinemann, 1946), James Hanley's What Farrar Saw (Nicholson and Watson, 1946), and J. Maclaren-Ross' Bitten by the Tarantula (Wingate, 1945).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Elizabeth Lake, Rhys Davies, James Hanley, J. Maclaren-Ross
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138. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Titus Groan, Three, The Gipsy's Baby, and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. New Statesman and Nation 31, no. 793 (4 May 1946): 323.
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Description: Reviews of Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1946), William Sansom's Three (Hogarth, 1946), Rosamond Lehmann's The Gipsy's Baby (Collins, 1946), and The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (Poetry London, 1945), by Vladimir Nabokov.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Mervyn Peake, William Sansom, Rosamond Lehmann, Vladimir Nabokov
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139. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of At Heaven's Gate, The Folded Leaf, and The Stormy Dawn. Listener 36, no. 928 (24 October 1946): 570.
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Description: Reed review new fiction.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Robert Penn Warren, At Heaven's Gate, William Maxwell, The Folded Leaf, Mark Freshfield, The Stormy Dawn
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140. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of The Death of Virgil, Sweet River in the Morning, and To the Dark Tower. Listener 36, no. 930 (7 November 1946): 644.
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Description: Reed reviews new fiction.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil, Winston Clewes, Sweet River in the Morning, Francis King, To the Dark Tower
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141. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Thieves in the Night, Back, and Mist in the Tagus. Listener 36, no. 933 (28 November 1946): 766.
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Description: Reed reviews new fiction, including Henry Green's Back: A Novel (London: Hogarth, 1946).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Arthur Koestler, Thieves in the Night, Henry Green, Back, Tom Hopkinson, Mist in the Tagus
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142. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Marguerite Reilly, That Summer, and A Frenchman Must Die. Listener 36, no. 935 (12 December 1946): 856.
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Description: Reed reviews new fiction.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Elizabeth Lake, Marguerite Reilly, Frank Sargeson, That Summer, Kay Boyle, A Frenchman Must Die
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143. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of The Little Kingdom, The Triumph of Death, and The Becker Wives. Listener 37, no. 938 (2 January 1947): 36.
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Description: Reed reviews new fiction, including Emyr Humphreys' The Little Kingdom (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Emyr Humphreys, The Little Kingdom, C.F. Ramuz, The Triumph of Death, Mary Lavin, The Becker Wives
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144. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of The Sixth Heaven, Dangling Man, Guiding Star, and Contemporary Chinese Short Stories. Listener 37, no. 940 (16 January 1947): 124.
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Description: Reed reviews new fiction by L.P. Hartley, Saul Bellow, Vercors (Jean Bruller), and an anthology of translations from Chinese.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Saul Bellow, Dangling Man, Sixth Heaven, L.P. Hartley, Guiding Star, Vercors, Contemporary Chinese Short Stories, Yuan Chia-Hua, Robert Payne
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145. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of The Age of Reason, Pascual Duarte's Family, and The Leaping Lad. Listener 37, no. 943 (6 February 1947): 256.
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Description: Reed reviews books by Sartre, Camilo J. Cela, and Sid Chaplin.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Jean-Paul Sarte, The Age of Reason, Eric Sutton, Camilo J. Cela, Pascual Duarte's Family, Sid Chaplin, The Leaping Lad
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146. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Review of Freedom Road, More Deadly Than the Male, and Teresa and Other Stories. Listener 37, no. 395 (6 March 1947): 344.
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Description: In this, his last article as fiction reviewer for the Listener, Reed reviews books by Howard Fast, Ambrose Grant, and Seán O'Faoláin.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Howard Fast, Freedom Road, Ambrose Grant, More Deadly Than the Male, Seán O'Faoláin, Teresa and Other Stories
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147. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Disobedience, Across the River and Into the Trees, Helena, Confessions of a Novice, and The Circle of the Minotaur. Listener 44, no. 1132 (9 November 1950): 515.
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Description: Reed reviews new fiction, including Waugh's Helena (London: Chapman & Hall, 1950).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Disobedience, Alberto Moravia, Across the River and Into the Trees, Ernest Hemingway, Helena, Evelyn Waugh, Confession of a Novice, Guido Piovene, The Circle of the Minotaur, Stuart Hood
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148. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of Dead Man Over All, Operation Heartbreak, Neapolitan Gold, and The Sunnier Side. Listener 44, no. 1134 (23 November 1950): 609.
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Description: Reviews of newly-published novels.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Walter Allen, Dead Man Over All, Duff Copper, Operation Heartbreak, Giusepee Marotta, Neapolitan Gold, Charles Jackson, The Sunnier Side
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149. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Reviews of The Forests of the Night, The Wall, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, and A Woman of Means. Listener 44, no. 1137 (14 December 1950): 757.
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Description: Reed reviews newly published novels.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Jean-Louis Curtis, The Forests of the Night, John Hersey, The Wall, Tennessee Williams, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Peter Taylor, A Woman of Means
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150. Reed, Henry. "New Novels and Stories." Reviews of A Rage to Live, The Lighted Cities, A Little Stone, and The Passionate North. Listener 45, no. 1140 (4 January 1951): 33.
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Description: Reed reviews two new novels, and two collections of short stories.
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Review: New Novels and Stories
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Subjects: Review
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References: John O'Hara, A Rage to Live, Ernest Frost, The Lighted Cities, Paul Bowles, A Little Stone, William Sansom, The Passionate North
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151. Reed, Henry. "New Poetic Drama." Reviews of This Way to the Tomb by Ronald Duncan, and The Old Man of the Mountains by Norman Nicholson. Listener 35, no. 900 (11 April 1946): 486.
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Description: Reed reviews verse drama: This Way to the Tomb, by Ronald Duncan (London: Faber and Faber, 1946), and The Old Man of the Mountains, by Norman Nicholson (London: Faber and Faber, 1946).
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Journal: New Poetic Drama
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Subjects: Review
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References: Ronald Duncan, This Way to the Tomb, Norman Nicholson, The Old Man of the Mountains
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152. Reed, Henry. "New Thurber." Review of Lanterns and Lances, by James Thurber. New Statesman 61, no. 1578 (9 June 1961): 924-925.
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Description: Reed reviews Thurber's essay collection, Lanterns and Lances (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1961).
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Subjects: Review
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References: James Thurber, Lanterns and Lances
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153. Reed, Henry. Noises On. BBC radio play, 1947.
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Description: BBC radio play.
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Subjects: Play
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References: Noises On
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154. Reed, Henry. Not a Drum Was Heard: The War Memoirs of General Gland. Unpublished radio script. Broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, 6 May 1959.
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Description: A tangent in the Hilda Tablet sequence, with overtones of General Montgomery. Broadcast in 1959.
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Play: Not a Drum Was Heard
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Subjects: Play
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155. Reed, Henry. The Novel Since 1939. British Council pamphlet. London: Longmans, Green, 1946.
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Description: '[R]eactions of a sensitive and intelligent young critic to the work of British novelists during the war years,' from Virginia Woolf to Aldous Huxley.
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Book: The Novel Since 1939
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Subjects: Review
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156. Reed, Henry. Papers of Henry Reed. University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections. MS031. Birmingham, England.
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Description: A collection of Reed's personal papers, correspondence, working notes, and drafts. See Research Libraries Bulletin, Autumn 1998, p. 12-14, for a description of the collection.
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Manuscript: Papers of Henry Reed
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Subjects: Biography, Poem, Play, Link
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References: The Candidate, Liberal Rhymes for Liberal Times, Voyage Autour de ma Chambre, Mycenae, Dance of the Seven Veils
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157. Reed, Henry. "Passage to India." Review of An Area of Darkness, by V.S. Naipaul. Spectator 213, no. 7110 (2 October 1964): 452-453.
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Description: Reed finds that Naipaul's book makes 'that harrowing choice between the sorry thing that can just be laughed at and those that can only be wept at.'
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Subjects: Review
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References: V.S. Naipaul, An Area of Darkness
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158. Reed, Henry. "Philoctetes." New Writing and Daylight (Autumn 1944): 136-139.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Philoctetes
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159. Reed, Henry. "Pity and Terror." Review of The Song of the Cold, by Edith Sitwell. New Statesman and Nation 31, no. 779 (26 January 1946): 69.
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Description: Review of Edith Sitwell's poetry collection, The Song of the Cold (London: Macmillan, 1945).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Edith Sitwell
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160. Reed, Henry. "The Place and the Person." New Writing and Daylight (September 1945). 161-165.
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Journal: The Place and the Person
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Place and the Person
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161. Reed, Henry. "Poem." Listener 18, no. 468 (29 December 1937): 1416.
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Description: Reed's first published poem, "The Captain," as it originally appeared in The Listener.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Captain
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162. Reed, Henry. "Poem." Listener 22, no. 556 (7 September 1939): 486.
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Description: Originally published in The Listener, this poem appears in A Map of Verona as "Outside and In."
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Outside and In
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163. Reed, Henry. "Poem." Listener 23, no. 587 (11 April 1940): 750.
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Description: Reed's poem, "Hiding Beneath the Furze," as it first appeared in The Listener.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Hiding Beneath the Furze
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164. Reed, Henry. "Poetry in War Time: IThe Older Poets." Listener 33, no. 836 (18 January 1945): 69, 72.
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Description: Reed discusses three modern poets and their influences in tradition.
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Journal: Poetry in War Time: IThe Older Poets
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Subjects: Review
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References: Edwin Muir, Louis MacNeice, C. Day Lewis
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165. Reed, Henry. "Poetry in War Time: IIThe Younger Poets." Listener 33, no. 837 (25 January 1945): 100-101.
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Description: Reed touches on many poets currently writing, but focuses on three contemporary poets.
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Journal: Poetry in War Time: IIThe Younger Poets
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Subjects: Review
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References: David Gascoyne, Vernon Watkins, Alun Lewis
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166. Reed, Henry. "The Poetry of Edith Sitwell." Penguin New Writing 21 (1944): 109-122.
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Description: Reed discusses the poetic development of Edith Sitwell.
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Journal: The Poetry of Edith Sitwell
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Subjects: Review
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References: Edith Sitwell
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167. Reed, Henry. Poetry Reading. The Poet Speaks. British Council recording, no. 1636. 12 March 1970. Co-sponsored by the British Council and the Woodberry Poetry Room in the Lamont Library of Harvard University. TAPE ARCHIVE PR6035.E32 A6 1970x, Woodberry Poetry Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University.
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Description: Henry Reed reads a selection of his poems for the British Council series, The Poet Speaks.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: On the Terrace, Three Words, The River, The Auction Sale, The Interval, Naming of Parts, Returning of Issue, A Good Dream, Lessons of the War, Carlo Cura
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168. Reed, Henry. "Poplit." Review of Soviet Stories of the Last Decade, translated by Elisaveta Fen. New Statesman and Nation 29, no. 737 (7 April 1945): 230.
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Description: Reed's reviews Soviet Stories of the Last Decade (London: Methuen, 1945), selected and translated by Elisaveta Fen.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Elisaveta Fen, Soviet Stories of the Last Decade
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169. Reed, Henry. Preface to Moby Dick: A Play for Radio from Herman Melville's Novel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1947. 5-11.
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Description: Reed's preface to his adaptation of Melville's novel for BBC radio.
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Book: Preface to Moby Dick: A Play for Radio
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Subjects: Play, Criticism, Biography
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References: Moby Dick, Herman Melville, Ishmael
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170. Reed, Henry. The Primal Scene, As It Were. In Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio. London, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: Hilda Tablet and her entourage embark on a Mediterranean voyage in this psychoanalytical farce from 1958.
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Play: The Primal Scene, As It Were
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Subjects: Play
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References: Primal Scene, As It Were
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171. Reed, Henry. "The Prisoner in the Palazzo." Radio Times, 6 May 1949, 7.
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Description: An introduction to Reed's play 'in which he has dramatised the early life of the nineteenth-century Italian poet Leopardi.'
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Newspaper: The Prisoner in the Palazzo
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Subjects: Play, Radio
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References: The Unblest, Giacomo Leopardi
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172. Reed, Henry. The Private Life of Hilda Tablet. In Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio. London, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: "Full frontal nudity was heard on radio for the first time," as Reed described it, in this 1954 follow-up to A Very Great Man Indeed.
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Play: The Private Life of Hilda Tablet
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Subjects: Play
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References: The Private Life of Hilda Tablet
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173. Reed, Henry. "Protestant Boy." Review of The Midnight Court, by Bryan Merriman. New Statesman and Nation 31, no. 790 (13 April 1946): 268.
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Description: Review of Bryan Merriman's The Midnight Court, translated by Frank O'Connor (London: M. Fridberg, 1945).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Bryan Merriman
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174. Reed, Henry. "Proust's Way." Reviews of Marcel Proust: A Selection from His Miscellaneous Writings translated by Gerard Hopkins, and The Two Worlds of Marcel Proust by Harold March. Observer, 16 January 1949, 4.
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Description: Reed says, 'Proust, like Shakespeare, should be read as early in life as possible, and should be read entire.'
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Subjects: Review
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References: Marcel Proust, Gerard Hopkins, Harold March
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175. Reed, Henry. "Psychological Warfare." In Collected Poems, edited by Jon Stallworthy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. 135-142.
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Book: Psychological Warfare
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Subjects: Poem
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176. Reed, Henry. "Psychological Warfare." London Review of Books 13, no. 6 (21 March 1991): 14-15.
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Description: Although it was not published during his lifetime, this long addition to Lessons of the War appeared as a preview to the publication of the Collected Poems.
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Journal: Psychological Warfare
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Psychological Warfare
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177. Reed, Henry. "Pytheas." BBC Third Programme broadcast, 25 May 1947.
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Description: Written in verse, this radio play follows Pytheas, the Greek traveler in search of the mysterious island kingdom, Ultima Thule.
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Subjects: Play
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References: Pytheas
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178. Reed, Henry. "Radio Drama," Men and Books. Time & Tide 25, no. 17 (22 April 1944): 350-358 (354).
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Description: Reed's review of Louis MacNeice's Christopher Columbus: A Radio Play (London: Faber, 1944).
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Subjects: Reviews, Radio
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References: Louis MacNeice, Christopher Columbus
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179. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Reviews of BBC broadcasts of Henry VI, Richard III, Henry IV, and "Preface to Paradise Lost." New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 867 (18 October 1947): 308.
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Description: Reed reviews recent radio programs.
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Richard III, Henry IV, C.S. Lewis, John Milton, Paradise Lost
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180. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 868 (25 October 1947): 329.
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Description: Reed's reviews of the BBC's Dialogues of Plato, Cervantes' Numancia, and various radio talks.
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Subjects: Review
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181. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Review of BBC broadcast of Electra. New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 869 (1 November 1947): 349.
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Description: Reed's review of the October 24 and 26, 1947 BBC broadcasts of Sir Thomas Beecham's production of the Strauss opera Elektra, featuring Ljuba Welitsch as Chrysothemis.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Richard Strauss, Electra, Ljuba Welitsch, Chrysothemis
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182. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Review of the BBC series, "Belief and Unbelief." New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 870 (8 November 1947): 368-369.
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Description: Reed reviews "Belief and Unbelief," a BBC series of talks on religion, with Dr. Ronald Winfield and the Reverend Nathaniel Micklem.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Belief and Unbelief
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183. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Review of the BBC shows "Window on Europe" and "Critics." New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 871 (15 November 1947): 389.
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Description: Reed reviews two BBC programs: "Window on Europe," interviews with post-war Germans, and an episode of "Critics" on French Novelists.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Window on Europe, Critics, Walter Allen, Philip Hope-Wallace, Eric Newton, Edward Sackville-West, V.S. Pritchett
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184. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Reviews of BBC broadcasts of a Cambridge Union debate, the BBC's 25th birthday celebrations, and Shelley's The Cenci. New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 872 (22 November 1947): 409.
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Description: Reed's reviews of radio broadcasts of a student debate in the Cambridge Union; the BBC's 25th birthday celebrations; and a production of Shelley's play, The Cenci.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Ted Cavanagh, Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci
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185. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Reviews of the Royal Wedding, The Guinea-Pig, and "Roman Britain." New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 873 (29 November 1947): 429-430.
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Description: Reed reviews BBC radio's coverage of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip; a rebroadcast of the play The Guinea-Pig; and the program, "Roman Britain."
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Subjects: Review
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References: Princess Elizabeth, Prince Philip, The Guinea-Pig, Roman Britain, Jenifer Wayne
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186. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Review of BBC production of Paradise Lost, by John Milton. New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 874 (6 December 1947): 449-450.
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Description: So displeased is he with Dylan Thomas' performance in the BBC's Paradise Lost, Reed is led to invent the word 'inauscultable' unlistenable-to (though he blames the subject-matter).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Dylan Thomas, John Milton, Paradise Lost
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187. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Reviews of "Belief and Unbelief," and Whose Body?, by Dorothy Sayers. New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 875 (13 December 1947): 469.
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Description: Reed reviews the last four talks from "Belief and Unbelief," a series on religion; a program on the burgeoning technology of television; and a dramatisation of Dorothy Sayer's Whose Body?
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Subjects: Review
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References: Belief and Unbelief, Whose Body?, Dorothy Sayers
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188. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Reviews of a BBC Party Political broadcast, Peace in Our Time, by Noel Coward, and a production of Tartuffe, by Molière. New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 876 (20 December 1947): 490.
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Description: Reed reviews such diverse BBC broadcasts as a Party Political speech by Herbert Morrison, Noel Coward's Peace in Our Time, and a production of Molière's Tartuffe.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Herbert Morrison, Peace in Our Time, Noel Coward, Tartuffe, Moličre
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189. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Reviews of BBC programs "British Courage," "Meet the People," "The Red Horse of Hollywood," and a production of The Cloister, by Emile Verhaeren. New Statesman and Nation 34, no. 877 (27 December 1947): 508.
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Description: Reed reviews the BBC programs "British Courage" and Meet the People"; a talk about America by Dennis Johnston, called "The Red Horse of Hollywood"; and a production of Emile Verhaeren's The Cloister.
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Subjects: Review
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References: British Courage, Meet the People, The Red Horse of Hollywood, Dennis Johnston, The Cloister, Emile Verhaeren
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190. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." New Statesman and Nation 35, no. 878 (3 January 1948): 10.
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Description: Reed reviews recent BBC broadcasts of The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, Men of Goodwill, and the opening of the Milan opera.
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, Men of Goodwill
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191. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." Reviews of BBC broadcasts by James Stephens, C. Day Lewis, Margaret Field-Hyde, Marius Goring, and James McKechnie. New Statesman and Nation 35, no. 879 (10 January 1948): 28-29.
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Description: Reed reviews several BBC radio broadcasts, including C. Day Lewis' "Time for Verse," and James McKechnie's "The House of the Barber."
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Subjects: Review
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References: James Stephens, I Knew These Men, C. Day Lewis, Time for Verse, Margaret Field-Hyde, Marius Goring, The Mary Gloster, James McKechnie, The House of the Barber, Second Opinion
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192. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." New Statesman and Nation 35, no. 880 (17 January 1948): 50.
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Description: Reed reviews recent BBC productions.
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: Angela Glynne, Alice in Wonderland, Barbara Sleigh, The Piece Egg, John Keir, The Swish of the Curtain, Geoffrey Grigson, John Dryden
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193. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." New Statesman and Nation 35, no. 881 (24 January 1948): 70.
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Description: Reed reviews several recent BBC productions.
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: A History of Sound in European Music, M.R. Ridley, Measure for Measure, James Law Forsythe, Bronze Horse, Second Opinion
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194. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." New Statesman and Nation 35, no. 882 (31 January 1948): 92.
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Description: Reed reviews recent BBC productions, including Coghill's adaptation of Chaucer.
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: Progress Report, Second Opinion, Stephen Potter, Married to a Genius, Nevill Coghill, Troilus and Criseyde
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195. Reed, Henry. "Radio Notes." New Statesman and Nation 35, no. 883 (7 February 1948): 112-113.
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Description: Reed reviews the program "Living Writers," which features authors interviewing other writers.
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: Living Writers, Ivy Compton-Burnette, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster
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196. Reed, Henry. Radio scripts. Cleverdon Mss. II. IV, British Broadcasting Corporation. University of Indiana Lilly Library, Manuscript Collections. Bloomington, IN.
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Description: Collection of correspondence and scripts belonging to BBC producer and director, Douglas Cleverdon, at the University of Indiana's Lilly Library. External link.
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Manuscript: Radio Scripts
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Subjects: Link, Radio, Poem, Play
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References: Naming of Parts, Judging Distances, Unarmed Combat, Movement of Bodies, Psychological Warfare, Returning of Issue, Auction Sale, Vincenzo, The Streets of Pompeii, A Very Great Man Indeed
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197. Reed, Henry. "Rates for Reviewing." Author, Playwright and Composer 57, no. 4 (Summer 1947): 64-68 [67].
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Description: 'The whole rackety business is a microcosm of human weakness and wickedness,' Reed says.
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Journal: Rates for Reviewing
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Subjects: Review
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References: John Betjeman, Daniel George, Rayner Heppenstall, H.J. Massingham, William Plomer, Herbert Read, C.E. Vulliamy, C.V. Wedgwood
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198. Reed, Henry. "The Return." Listener 32, no. 833 (28 December 1944): 710.
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Description: Upon hearing this poem read on the BBC Christmas Eve, 1944, E.M. Forster immediately wrote a letter to Reed.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Return, C. Day Lewis, Laurie Lee
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199. Reed, Henry. Return to Naples. In The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: Reed's semi-autobiographical radio play about an Englishman's visits to the Italian city over a period of twenty years. First broadcast in 1950.
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Subjects: Play
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References: Return to Naples
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200. Reed, Henry. "Returning of Issue." Listener 84, no. 2170 (29 October 1970): 596-597.
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Description: This Listener issue contains not only a poem by Reed, but also an advertisement for the 1970 Chilmark Press edition of Lessons of the War (page 600).
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Journal: Returning of Issue
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Returning of Issue
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201. Reed, Henry. "'Kennst Du Das Land?'" Reviews of Italy, by M. Paul Lechat, and As for Italy, by Jean François Revel. Listener 63, no. 1607 (14 January 1960): 93.
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Description: Reed's reviews of Italian travel books, including Jean François Revel's As for Italy, translated by Anthony Rhodes (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1959).
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Journal: Review of As for Italy
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Subjects: Review
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References: Jean François Revel, As for Italy, M. Paul Lechat, Italy
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202. Reed, Henry. Review of Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence. The Listener's Book Chronicle. Listener 64, no. 1652 (24 November 1960): 948.
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Description: Reed's reviews Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover following the lift of the obscenity ban in Britain, wondering how many people have read it cover to cover (as opposed to every who has dipped into it, 'here and there').
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Journal: Review of Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Subjects: Review
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References: D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
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203. Reed, Henry. Review of Poems, by George Seferis, translated by Rex Warner. The Listener's Book Chronicle. Listener 65, no. 1679 (1 June 1961): 978.
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Description: Reed reviews a collection of Seferis' poetry, whom he calls a 'major poet.'
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Subjects: Review
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References: George Seferis, Poems, Rex Warner
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204. Reed, Henry. Review of Six Poets of Modern Greece, translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. The Listener's Book Chronicle. Listener 64, no. 1642 (15 September 1960): 438-439.
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Description: Reed feels that Cavafy is 'striking,' and Seferis 'comes over with real vividness,' but the other four poets do not fare as well.
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Review: Review of Six Poets of Modern Greece
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Subjects: Review
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References: George Seferis, Anghelos Sikelianos, D.I. Antoniou, Odysseus Elytis, Nikos Gatsos, C.P. Cavafy
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205. Reed, Henry. Review of The Demon Lover, by Elizabeth Bowen. In vol. 3, Short Story Criticism, edited by Sheila Fitzgerald. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989. 30-31.
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Description: Reprints Reed's 1945 review of Bowen's The Demon Lover, from the New Statesman.
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Chapter: Review of The Demon Lover
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Subjects: Review
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References: Elizabeth Bowen, The Demon Lover
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206. Reed, Henry. Reviews of The Necessary Angel and Opus Posthumous, by Wallace Stevens. The Listener's Book Chronicle. Listener 63, no. 1620 (14 April 1960): 675-676.
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Description: Reed reviews of Wallace Stevens' The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination (London: Faber and Faber, 1960), and Opus Posthumous, edited by Samuel French Morse (London: Faber and Faber, 1960).
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Review: Review of The Necessary Angel
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Subjects: Review
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References: Wallace Stevens, The Necessary Angel, Opus Posthumous
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207. Reed, Henry. "New Novels." Review of The Shrimp and the Anemone, The Stranger, A Bomb and a Girl, and The Twelfth. New Statesman and Nation 29, no. 725 (13 January 1945): 27-28.
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Description: Review of current fiction includes L.P. Hartley's The Shrimp and the Anemone (London: Putnam, 1944).
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Journal: Review of The Shrimp and the Anemone
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Subjects: Review
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References: L.P. Hartley, The Shrimp and the Anemone, Maria Kuncewiczowa, The Stranger, Hugh Shearman, A Bomb and a Girl, J.K. Stanford, The Twelfth
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208. Reed, Henry. Reviews of Paul Gauguin: Water-Colours, Pastels, and Drawings in Colour, and Noa Noa, by Paul Gauguin. The Listener's Book Chronicle. Listener 67, no. 1710 (4 January 1962): 34.
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Description: Reed reviews a collection of Gauguin's art in color, and the artist's Tahitian journal, Noa Noa.
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Journal: Reviews of Paul Gauguin
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Subjects: Review
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References: Paul Gauguin, Jean Leymarie, Jonathan Griffin
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209. Reed, Henry. "'Richard'." Review of Narrative of a Child Analysis, by Melanie Klein. Listener 65, no. 1667 (9 March 1961): 445-446.
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Description: Reed, a self-proclaimed Kleinian, reviews this treatise on the conduct of child psychoanalysis, which he keeps 'on the same shelf as Finnegans Wake and War and Peace'.
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Subjects: Review
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References: Melanie Klein, Narrative of a Child Analysis
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210. Reed, Henry. "Rilke Once More." Christmas Books. Reviews of Rilke: Man and Poet, and Rilke and Benvenuta. Listener 42, no. 1089 (8 December 1949): 1014-1015.
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Description: Reed reviews two books for the Christmas season: Purtscher-Wydenbruck's Rilke: Man and Poet (London: Lehmann, 1949), and von Graedener-Hattingberg's Rilke and Benvenuta, translated by Cyrus Brooks (London: Heinemann, 1949).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Nora Wydenbruck, Rilke: Man and Poet, Magda von Hattingberg, Rilke and Benvenuta: A Book of Thanks
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211. Reed, Henry. "The River." Listener 83, no. 2139 (26 March 1970): 418.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The River
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212. Reed, Henry. "Rome: 'Time's Central City'." Review of A Time in Rome, by Elizabeth Bowen. Listener 65, no. 1659 (12 January 1961): 91.
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Description: Reed calls Bowen's book 'essentially a book to be read away from Rome, not in it', and feels this Rome is 'perfectly created.'
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Journal: Rome: Time's Central City
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Subjects: Review
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References: Elizabeth Bowen, A Time in Rome, D.H. Lawrence, Twilight in Italy
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213. Reed, Henry. "Ruggeri." New Statesman and Nation 45, no. 1156 (2 May 1953): 515-516.
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Description: Reflections on the performances of the great Italian actor, Ruggero Ruggeri.
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: Ruggero Ruggeri, Tutto per Bene
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214. Reed, Henry. "Ruth Draper." Radio Times, 11 October 1962, 26.
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Description: Reed introduces "The World of Ruth Draper," a four-part retrospective of the actress and monologuist's career.
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Subjects: Radio, Review
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References: Ruth Draper
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215. Reed, Henry. "Sailor's Harbour." New Statesman and Nation 15, no. 366 (26 February 1938): 326.
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Description: First publication of Reed's poem, "Sailor's Harbour."
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Journal: Sailor's Harbour
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Sailor's Harbour
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216. Reed, Henry. "Salvador de Madariaga's 'On Hamlet'." Letter to the editor. Listener 40, no. 1025 (16 September 1948): 422.
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Description: Reed's reply to de Madariaga's letter of September 2nd, mentions his recent attendance of the Oxford Players' Hamlet.
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Journal: Salvador de Madariaga's 'On Hamlet'
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: Salvador de Madariaga, On Hamlet
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217. Reed, Henry. "Salvador de Madariaga's 'On Hamlet'." Letter to the editor. Listener 40, no. 1028 (7 October 1948): 530.
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Description: Reed's final word in the exchange over his radio talk of August 17, with an "apology" to Kenneth Tynan.
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Journal: Salvador de Madariaga's 'On Hamlet'
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: Salvador de Madariaga, On Hamlet, Kenneth Peacock Tynan
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218. Reed, Henry. "Shocked into Life." Review of The Empty Canvas, by Alberto Moravia, translated by Angus Davidson. Sunday Telegraph (London), 19 November 1961, 7.
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Description: Of Moravia's most recent novel, Reed says "there is something unquestionably heroic about the whole enterprise."
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Newspaper: Shocked into Life
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Subjects: Review
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References: The Empty Canvas, Alberto Moravia, Angus Davidson
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219. Reed, Henry. "Short Stories." Reviews of Travellers by L.A.G. Strong, The Wide Net by Eudora Welty, and The Water Music by Glyn Jones. New Statesman and Nation 30, no. 752 (21 July 1945): 44-45.
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Description: Reed reviews new collections of short fiction.
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Subjects: Review
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References: L.A.G. Strong, Travellers, Eudora Welty, The Wide Net, Glyn Jones, The Water Music
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220. Reed, Henry. "Short Stories." Reviews of It May Never Happen, Better Than a Kick in the Pants, and Stories of the Forties. New Statesman and Nation 31, no. 776 (5 January 1946): 12.
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Description: Review of V.S. Pritchett's It May Never Happen (London: Chatto and Windus, 1945), J. Maclaren-Ross' Better Than a Kick in the Pants (London: Lawson and Dunn, 1945), and Stories of the Forties, edited by Reginald Moore and Woodrow Wyatt (London: Nicholson and Watson, 1945).
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Subjects: Review
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References: V.S. Pritchett, J. Maclaren-Ross, Reginald Moore, Woodrow Wyatt
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221. Reed, Henry. "Simenon's Saga." Review of Pedigree by Georges Simenon, translated by Robert Baldick. Sunday Telegraph (London), 12 August 1962, 7.
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Description: Reed calls Pedigree a work for the "very serious Simenon student only," and disagrees with the translator's choice to put the novel into the past tense.
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Newspaper: Simenon's Saga
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Subjects: Review
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References: Georges Simenon, Pedigree, Robert Baldick
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222. Reed, Henry. "Solacing Music." Review of The Complete Poems of Walter de la Mare. Sunday Times (London), 25 January 1970, 57.
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Description: Reed finds a great deal of boredom in de la Mare's collected verse, and ultimately says 'I cannot think its gentle author can have wished it all at once upon anybody.'
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Newspaper: Solacing Music
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Subjects: Review
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References: Walter de la Mare
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223. Reed, Henry. "Sonnet." Listener 36, no. 927 (17 October 1946): 498.
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Description: This poem appears Reed's collection, A Map of Verona, as "The Forest."
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Forest
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224. Reed, Henry. "South." Listener 19, no. 438 (13 April 1938): 806.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: South
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225. Reed, Henry. "Spain, '36-'39: No Art
Out of War." Review of A Poet's War: British Poets and the Spanish Civil War, by Hugh D. Ford. Sunday Times (London), 5 September 1965, 39.
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Description: Reed's review of Hugh D. Ford's A Poet's War: British Poets and the Spanish Civil War (London: Oxford University Press, 1965).
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Newspaper: Spain, '36-'39: No Art Out of War
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Subjects: Review
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References: Hugh D. Ford, W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, Herbert Read, C. Day Lewis
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226. Reed, Henry. "Stravinsky Speaks." Review of Expositions and Developments, by Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft. Sunday Telegraph (London), 3 June 1962, 7.
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Description: Reed calls Robert Craft an "adroit questioner," who provokes answers from Stravinsky which are "voluminous, entertaining and full of insight."
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Newspaper: Stravinsky Speaks
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Subjects: Review
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References: Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, Expositions and Developments
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227. Reed, Henry. Script of The Streets of Pompeii. John Grierson Archive. G6: Personal Papers, January 1, 1951 - October 10, 1957. University of Stirling Library, Special Collections. Stirling, Scotland.
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Description: A script of Reed's The Streets of Pompeii is among the papers of Scottish film producer and director John Grierson.
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Manuscript: The Streets of Pompeii
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Subjects: Link, Miscellaneous
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References: The Streets of Pompeii
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228. Reed, Henry. The Streets of Pompeii. In The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: A "sort of dramatic poem," said Reed, this radio play centers on varied groups of visitors to the ruins of Pompeii. First broadcast in 1952, The Streets of Pompeii won the 1953 Italia Prize for literary or dramatic programmes.
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Play: The Streets of Pompeii
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Subjects: Play
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References: Streets of Pompeii
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229. Reed, Henry. The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: Collection of Reed's radio drama for the BBC, including Leopardi: The Unblest, Leopardi: The Monument, The Streets of Pompeii, Return to Naples, The Great Desire I Had, and Vincenzo.
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Book: The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio ( 0563101644)
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Subjects: Play
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References: The Unblest, The Monument, The Streets of Pompeii, Return to Naples, The Great Desire I Had, Vincenzo
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230. Reed, Henry. "The Summer Exam." Unpublished poem. Papers of Henry Reed. University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections. MS031. Birmingham, England.
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Description: Reed's personal papers contain a draft for this unpublished poem, not included in the Collected Poems.
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Manuscript: The Summer Exam
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Summer Exam
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231. Reed, Henry. "Talks to India," Men and Books. Time & Tide 25, no. 3 (15 January 1944): 54-55.
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Description: Reed's review of Talking to India, edited by George Orwell (London: Allen & Unwin, 1943).
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Subjects: Reviews, Radio
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References: George Orwell, E.M. Forster, Ritchie Calder, Cedric Dover, Hsiao Ch'ien
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232. Reed, Henry. "Three Words." Listener 83, no. 2139 (26 March 1970): 418.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Three Words
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233. Reed, Henry, comp. "Time for Verse." Poetry Notebook. Broadcast on the BBC Home Service, 23 February 1947.
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Subjects: Radio, Review
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234. Reed, Henry. "Tintagel." Listener 28, no. 720 (29 October 1942): 564.
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Description: This poem was later renamed "Tristram" for A Map of Verona.
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Tintagel
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235. Reed, Henry. "Towards 'The Cocktail Party'." Listener 45, no. 1158 (10 May 1951): 763-764.
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Description: The first of two radio talks by Reed on the problems presented by dramatic writing.
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Journal: Towards 'The Cocktail Party'
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: T.S. Eliot, Henry James, Thomas Hardy, Henrik Ibsen
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236. Reed, Henry. "Towards 'The Cocktail Party' II." Listener 45, no. 1159 (17 May 1951): 803-804.
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Description: The second of Reed's radio talks on the problems of dramatic writing.
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Journal: Towards 'The Cocktail Party' II
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Subjects: Review, Radio
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References: George Bernard Shaw, Shakespeare, Hamlet, T.S. Eliot
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237. Reed, Henry. "The Town Itself (A Poem)." Listener 91, no. 2343 (21 February 1974): 237.
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Description: The note accompanying this poem in the Listener reads: 'A tribute to Henry Reed on his 60th birthday will be broadcast on Radio 3 tomorrow night.'
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Journal: The Town Itself (A Poem)
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Town Itself
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238. Reed, Henry. "Two Novels." Reviews of All Hallows' Eve by Charles Williams, and The Only Door Out by Mary Wilkes. New Statesman and Nation 29, no. 733 (10 March 1945): 160.
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Description: Reed's reviews of Charles Williams' All Hallows' Eve, and Mary Wilkes' The Only Door Out (Faber and Faber, 1945).
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Subjects: Review
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References: Charles Williams, All Hallows' Eve, Mary Wilkes, The Only Door Out
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239. Reed, Henry. "Two Poems." Listener 83, no. 2139 (26 March 1970): 418.
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Description: "The River" and "Three Words" appeared here as "Two Poems."
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The River, Three Words
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240. Reed, Henry. "Two Years Before the Muse." Review of Edward Thomas: A Critical Biography, by William Cooke. Sunday Times (London), 29 March 1970, 56.
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Description: Dr. Cooke has 'excellent judgment,' and his literary style is 'flawless and confident.'
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Newspaper: Two Years Before the Muse
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Subjects: Review
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References: Edward Thomas, William Cooke
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241. Reed, Henry. "Unarmed Combat." New Statesman and Nation 29, no. 740 (28 April 1945): 271.
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Description: The fourth part of Reed's Lessons of the War series was published in 1945 with the subtitle "A Poem from the Forces" and epigraph "... Et militavi none sine gloria."
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Unarmed Combat
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242. Reed, Henry. Leopardi, Part I: The Unblest. In The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: In this radio play, the young poet Count Giacomo Leopardi, a half-blind hunchback, is made miserable by his domineering mother. First broadcast in 1949.
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Subjects: Play
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References: Unblest
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243. Reed, Henry. A Very Great Man Indeed. In Hilda Tablet and Others: Four Pieces for Radio. London, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: An earnest young biographer collects material for his subject, a famous novelist, in this satirical radio comedy, which introduced Reed's most well-known character, Hilda Tablet, played by Mary O'Farrell. Broadcast in 1953.
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Play: A Very Great Man Indeed
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Subjects: Play
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References: A Very Great Man Indeed
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244. Reed, Henry. "Veteris Vestigia Flammae." Review of Some Recollections, by Emma Hardy. Listener 66, no. 1700 (26 October 1961): 678.
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Description: Reed's review of Some Recollections by Emma Hardy (Thomas Hardy's first wife), edited by Evelyn Hardy and Robert Gittings. (London: Oxford University Press, 1961).
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Journal: Veteris Vestigia Flammae
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Subjects: Review
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References: Thomas Hardy
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245. Reed, Henry. Vincenzo. In The Streets of Pompeii and Other Plays for Radio. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1971.
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Description: In a narrative put forth by his four wives, this radio play follows the life of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga I, from his nineteenth year to his deathbed. Broadcast in 1955.
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Subjects: Play
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References: Vincenzo
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246. Reed, Henry. "Voyage Autour de ma Chambre." Unpublished poem. Papers of Henry Reed. University of Birmingham Information Services, Special Collections. MS031. Birmingham, England.
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Description: Reed's personal papers contain a draft for this unpublished poem, not included in the Collected Poems.
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Manuscript: Voyage Autour de ma Chambre
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Subjects: Poem
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References: Voyage Autour de ma Chambre
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247. Reed, Henry. "W.H. Auden in America." Review of For the Time Being, by W.H. Auden. Penguin New Writing 31 (1947). 124-130.
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Description: Reed's review of For the Time Being, Auden's first book of poems from America (1945).
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Journal: W.H. Auden in America
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Subjects: Review
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References: W.H. Auden, The Sea and the Mirror, For the Time Being
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248. Reed, Henry. "The Wall." Penguin New Writing 17 (1943): 85-86.
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Description: A short, biographical note on Reed is included in "About the New Contributors" for this first publication of his poem, "The Wall."
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Subjects: Poem
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References: The Wall
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249. Reed, Henry. "What the Master Kept Back." Review of Picasso's Picassos, photographed and introduced by David Douglas Duncan. Sunday Telegraph (London), 29 October 1961, 6.
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Description: Reed calls this book "much more than a retrospective" of unseen works by a master: this collection is "infinitely more touching, and possibly more absorbing."
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Newspaper: What the Master Kept Back
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Subjects: Review
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References: Picasso's Picassos, Pablo Picasso, David Douglas Duncan
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250. Reed, Henry. "What the Wireless Can Do for Literature." BBC Quarterly 3 (1948-1949): 217-222.
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Description: Reed's radio manifesto, which contains 'that blunt, crude acknowledgment of the fact that some listeners are fools, and some are not, and that we cannot wait for the fools to catch up with their betters.'
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Journal: What the Wireless Can Do for Literature
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Subjects: Review, Play, Radio
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References: Louis MacNeice, V.S. Pritchett
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251. Reed, Henry. "Without Tears." Review of Poetry for You, by C. Day Lewis. New Statesman and Nation 29, no. 278 (3 February 1945): 81-82.
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Description: Review of C. Day Lewis's book, Poetry for You: A Book for Boys and Girls on the Enjoyment of Poetry (Oxford, B. Blackwell 1944).
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Subjects: Review
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References: C. Day Lewis, Poetry for You
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252. Reed, Henry. Yıldızlı Şölen. Translated by Coşkun Yerli. Istanbul: Iyi Seyler, 1996.
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Description: Reed's Collected Poems, translated into Turkish.
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Subjects: Translation, Poem
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