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Yes, the letter should be sent to Lovett, but I think you should leave off that last about my work either being or not being the epic. Instead, you should take the positive side, for very few men are capable of individual opinion forme9ing my Collected Poems. If you can not get this, I'll send it to you as soon as my mother returns the copy I sent her.
Now as to the Pulitzer Award: the morning the news came here, both Ralph and Joseph Pulitzer rushed into my office and seemed flabbergasted that I had been ignored. it was taken for granted, apparently, that I'd win. Even Louis Untermeyer wrote to friends here in St. Louis that the award would undoubtedly, and should, to go me. There were preparations here to honor me as the winner.
anyway beef or no beef from N.Y. Is The New Republic intelligent & fair enough to come out & give my work its right?dare not go against the local fashion.
As for my work, it is truly surprising how it grows without any clique influence, and even without genuine loyalty from Macmillan's publicity department. When good things are said of my work, someone in the publicity department Kills
The point for Lovett is this: Here is admittedly great work. Is he tied up with local influences. Does he think the New Republic should stultify itself by holding back. Is that in keeping with the policy of the New Republic? Many all over the country are asking why N. Y. tries to hold me down.
Remember that Macmillans are eager to publish anything I can give them. They are not philanthropists. Tell about the thousands of schools using my work. There are thousands, and also tell what effect the work has on students.
Tell him, too, that no N.Y. cliquester should be asked to do the review.