Three poems of Li Shang-Yin, translations by Angus Graham, music by Mervyn Burtch. Handwritten music and lyrics in a large pamphlet with pink cover.
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Autumn Sequence for Bass and Piano by Terence Crowther, translated from the Chinese by A.C. Graham. Photocopy of handwritten music sheets composed by Terence Croucher (b. 1944) for Graham's translations of late Tang poems, dedicated to Roger Stalman (d. 2009).
Zonder titelThe Great Digest: Photocopy of music by Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) using Ezra Pound's translation of the Daxue (Great Digest) with typed sheet of performance notes. The Great Digest was an earlier privately published version of Cardew's later work The Great Learning.
Zonder titelAn excerpt from the lyrics of the Peking opera Kong cheng ji 空城計, Two notebook leaves with handwritten copy attached to scene 26. Originally found in the book Guoju dacheng 國劇大成 vol. 4, ed. by Zhang Bojin 張伯謹, published in 1960. (Part of Graham collection)
Correspondence with other poets and critics, or concerning poetry.
Zonder titelLetter from Hugh Porteus to Angus Graham to reply to Graham's letter. He writes of his review of Graham's Penguin book, Poems of the Late T'ang. He also writes about T.S. Eliot's reaction to the article and that he had hoped to provoke a reaction from William Empson. He comments on other translations of the poems, in particular Robert Payne's anthology of The White Pony. Porteus sends some of his own translations.
Zonder titelLetter from Roman Jakobson, Harvard University, to Angus Graham to send his linguistic analysis of Regulated Verse. The paper, The Prosodic Design of Chinese Verse is with the letter.
Zonder titelLetter from Angus Graham to Roman Jakobson to thank him for the article and to make his comments on it.
Zonder titelLetter from Roman Jakobson, Harvard University, to Angus Graham to explain the story behind the production of his paper and to send a further paper on Grammatical Parallelism (not present).
Zonder titelLetter from Anne to Angus Graham with examples of poems by Hsiao Kang which contain elaborate images of reflection. She writes that she is preparing translations. She asks Graham and his family to lunch. Originally located with copy of Yutai xinyong (Beijing: Xuesheng guji, 1955).