Letters from W.H. Auden to Professor E.R. Dodds and to Mrs. Dodds

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MS. Eng. lett. c. 464

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50 letters from W.H. Auden to Professor E.R. Dodds, and 32 to Mrs Dodds, 1936-1973.

Poems, all printed in Collected Poems, ed. Edward Mendelson, 1976, are on the following leaves: 16, 59, 60, 122, 129, 130, 137, 139v, 140, 142, 144, 148v, 150, 152v, 153, 155v, 157v, 159v, 161, 163v, 165v; some contain variants from the final text.

On fols. 168-179 are notes on education, early 1930s.

Dates

Creation: 1936-1973

Extent

184 Leaves

Language of Materials

English

Preferred Citation

Oxford, Bodleian Libraries [followed by shelfmark and folio or page reference, e.g. MS. Eng. lett. c. 464, fols. 1-2].

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MS. Eng. lett. c. 464

Collection ID (for staff)

CMD ID 22246

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Abstract

Letters from W.H. Auden to Professor E.R. Dodds and to Mrs. Dodds

Biographical / Historical

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973) was an Anglo-American poet and writer.

Eric Robertson Dodds (1893-1979) was a classical scholar. He was the Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, 1936-1960.

Annie Edwards Dodds, née Powell (1886/7–1973), was a lecturer in English at Reading University.

For further details see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.