Paul Bowles

Visiting Leningrad in 1965, RF tried hard to engineer a meeting with Anna Akhmatova , an upstairs neighbour of people she did meet. She is on terms of acquaintance with many poets writing in London...

CMC therefore shared her day-to-day life at various times with Davis , W. H. Auden , Louis MacNiece , Gypsy Rose Lee , Benjamin Britten , Richard Wright , Paul and Jane Bowles , Christopher Isherwood

CM is said to have liked this the best of all her published works. It was discussed on the BBC programme The Critics, and later proved an important book for a future translator...

RF wrote an essay about her friends Jane Bowles and Sylvia Plath , which appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and was reprinted in Crossroads, the journal of the American Poetry Society . Another...