AS
's Selected Poems was issued in England by Oxford University Press
, whose editor Jon Stallworthy
had approached her as a step in its campaign to challenge Faber and Faber
for supremacy as the...
Publishing
Anne Sexton
Many of the poems had appeared in periodicals from about a year before this. Jon Stallworthy
, who was offered the manuscript for Oxford University Press
, was dubious about its quality and stipulated some...
Publishing
Anne Sexton
Mindful that Jon Stallworthy
of OUP
had expressed increasing reservations about her work (he thought that celebrity status was damaging it), AS
withdrew from Oxford and offered this volume for British publicaton to D. J. Enright
