In 1943 the painter Marcella Comes Winslow, who was later to gain an international reputation for her portraits, moved with her two young children to Washington, D.C., to live there until her husband, Colonel Randolph Winslow, returned from the war in Europe. That same year Allen Tate became the consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, and in the years that followed, Washington turned into an increasingly active cultural center. Largely through her friendship with Tate and his wife, the novelist Caroline Gordon, ...
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In 1943 the painter Marcella Comes Winslow, who was later to gain an international reputation for her portraits, moved with her two young children to Washington, D.C., to live there until her husband, Colonel Randolph Winslow, returned from the war in Europe. That same year Allen Tate became the consultant in poetry at the Library of Congress, and in the years that followed, Washington turned into an increasingly active cultural center. Largely through her friendship with Tate and his wife, the novelist Caroline Gordon, both of whom she had met some years earlier at the Memphis estate of her mother-in-law, Winslow came to know an astonishing array of poets, novelists, and critics, among them W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Robert Lowell, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, John Crowe Ransom, Karl Shapiro, Peter Taylor, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn Warren, and Eudora Welty. Many ended up sitting for Winslow. Winslow revealed her impressions of those luminaries - and her impressions of much more besides - in frequent letters to her beloved mother-inlaw, Anne Goodwin Winslow, herself a widely read novelist and poet. Those letters, more than two hundred in all, are gathered in Brushes with the Literary. As gifted a correspondent as she was a painter, Winslow wrote letters that sparkle with telling details and shrewd comments about the personalities and activities of her acquaintances, who included not only literary figures but others prominent in the dry's social and political circles. They provide a special insight into life in Washington during the war years, when scarcities and relentless worries about loved ones abroad were made somewhat more bearable by the livelysocial life and small-town charm of the nation's capital. But it is the observations about the writers who became her friends and whose portraits she painted that lend these letters their overriding significance. Through the years we follow Winslow's friendship with the mercuria
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Seller's Description:
Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Foreword by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. Quarto. Comb-bound unprinted blue wrappers. Light wear on the wrappers, near fine. An ungainly format, presumably very few were issued. A book in the series of Southern Literary Studies.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. A clean and sound copy. Careful packing and fast, efficient shipping including delivery confirmation. International Priority Air Mail shipping available for this item.
Publisher:
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, LA
Published:
1993
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
8267091566
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Very good. 8vo, hardcover. Presentation copy, with long inscription to woman who appears in the book. 2 pgs. creased, 2 pen-marks on Index pgs., else vg+ condition in slightly rear-crinkled, otherwise bright & clean, vg dj. 395 pp., illus. Invitations to Winslow book-signing & art opening, plus inscribed snapshot of friends laid in.
