This is the rating and price for Auden (W.H.) Series of six autograph letters signed (Wystan), subscribed with love, to his Oxford contemporary Vincent (Peter) Allom, the letters covering a wide range of the poet's youthful concerns, including qualms over his homosexuality: I am glad everything has turned out so pleasantly for you - for the present at anyway. There still lingers in my mind the idea of something indecent in a mutual homosexual relation, I shall be interested to know how exactly you feel about it. I am sure I should be miserable! I am am used to hear of your mother's approval... his aims in editing Oxford Poetry (...The Muse has been well enough, and the preface to Oxford Poetry is as important as the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads...), Ango Saxon verse (seven lines of which he quotes), their tutor Neville Coghill (...I am touched to hear about your reactions to that evening Perhaps, I am a trifle ealous. Did you see Neville described... as 'a tall smartly dressed young man......), reading parties, mutual friends (...I have had a letter from Williams, enjoying himself, though more erotically than usefully...), writing pro'e cts (...I am going to write a book on Anglo-Latin writers up till the end of the 14 century...), reading (...In my spare time I read late Latin Priapea! ..), his health (...got back yesterday only to take to my bed with indolent ulcers and general sepsis...), foreign excursions (... Yugoslavia has the hottest climate and the slowest trains in Europe... I think I forgot to tell you that I went to Yugoslavia instead of Iceland...), Allom's mother, etc., the two later letters touching on travel plans am going to Berlin in October for a year...) and his future career still here for this term, then probably into films...), one on a postcard, 8 pages, the letters with envelopes (one marked by Auden Read Spengler] Pascall Can't think of anything else), occasional light spotting and creasing, 4to and 8vo, the first four from Birmingham, the fifth from Penrith and the last from Downs School postmarked 10 July 1927, 19 August 1927, 29 September 1927, 27 August 1928, 24 August 1929, and 7 May 1935 E600-800 Peter Allom and Auden were contemporaries at Oxford, both having Neville Coghill as their tutor. They met during Auden's first term at a party of the Hypocrites Club: At this party [ Auden] met for the first time, and made sexual advances to, V.M. ('Peter') Allom, an undergraduate at Exeter College. Allom did not respond sexually, but became friends with Auden for the rest of their undergraduate years (Humphrey Carpenter, Wh. Auden, 198] p.65n, where two extracts are printed, that on mutual homosexual relations, its source unattributed p.49, and the Lyrical Ballads, p. 70n, see also Wh. Auden: juvenilia, edited by Katherine Bucknell, 1994 p.xl). Allom's copies of the 1927 and 1928 editions of Oxford Poetry, edited by Auden (with contributions by Auden, Day-Lewis, Driberg, Macneice, Rex Warner, and Isherwood) are included in the lot, the first containing Allom's poem 'An Ornithological View of Existence', which he had written in honour of his friend's birthday and which he insisted be published anonymously. Also included in the lot are Allom's copies of Ellot's Criterion for January 1930 and October 193 ] printing Auden's 'Paid on Both Sides' and 'Speech for a Prize Day' ( Allom being present when Auden read this to Coghill). by Neville Lewis

Neville Lewis (1895-1972)
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Auden (W.H.) Series of six autograph letters signed (Wystan), subscribed with love, to his Oxford contemporary Vincent (Peter) Allom, the letters covering a wide range of the poet's youthful concerns, including qualms over his homosexuality: I am glad everything has turned out so pleasantly for you - for the present at anyway. There still lingers in my mind the idea of something indecent in a mutual homosexual relation, I shall be interested to know how exactly you feel about it. I am sure I should be miserable! I am am used to hear of your mother's approval... his aims in editing Oxford Poetry (...The Muse has been well enough, and the preface to Oxford Poetry is as important as the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads...), Ango Saxon verse (seven lines of which he quotes), their tutor Neville Coghill (...I am touched to hear about your reactions to that evening Perhaps, I am a trifle ealous. Did you see Neville described... as 'a tall smartly dressed young man......), reading parties, mutual friends (...I have had a letter from Williams, enjoying himself, though more erotically than usefully...), writing pro'e cts (...I am going to write a book on Anglo-Latin writers up till the end of the 14 century...), reading (...In my spare time I read late Latin Priapea! ..), his health (...got back yesterday only to take to my bed with indolent ulcers and general sepsis...), foreign excursions (... Yugoslavia has the hottest climate and the slowest trains in Europe... I think I forgot to tell you that I went to Yugoslavia instead of Iceland...), Allom's mother, etc., the two later letters touching on travel plans am going to Berlin in October for a year...) and his future career still here for this term, then probably into films...), one on a postcard, 8 pages, the letters with envelopes (one marked by Auden Read Spengler] Pascall Can't think of anything else), occasional light spotting and creasing, 4to and 8vo, the first four from Birmingham, the fifth from Penrith and the last from Downs School postmarked 10 July 1927, 19 August 1927, 29 September 1927, 27 August 1928, 24 August 1929, and 7 May 1935 E600-800 Peter Allom and Auden were contemporaries at Oxford, both having Neville Coghill as their tutor. They met during Auden's first term at a party of the Hypocrites Club: At this party [ Auden] met for the first time, and made sexual advances to, V.M. ('Peter') Allom, an undergraduate at Exeter College. Allom did not respond sexually, but became friends with Auden for the rest of their undergraduate years (Humphrey Carpenter, Wh. Auden, 198] p.65n, where two extracts are printed, that on mutual homosexual relations, its source unattributed p.49, and the Lyrical Ballads, p. 70n, see also Wh. Auden: juvenilia, edited by Katherine Bucknell, 1994 p.xl). Allom's copies of the 1927 and 1928 editions of Oxford Poetry, edited by Auden (with contributions by Auden, Day-Lewis, Driberg, Macneice, Rex Warner, and Isherwood) are included in the lot, the first containing Allom's poem 'An Ornithological View of Existence', which he had written in honour of his friend's birthday and which he insisted be published anonymously. Also included in the lot are Allom's copies of Ellot's Criterion for January 1930 and October 193 ] printing Auden's 'Paid on Both Sides' and 'Speech for a Prize Day' ( Allom being present when Auden read this to Coghill). Price: 2 120.53 USD It's free to register now to view!
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