LOGUE CHRISTOPHER: (1926-2011)

LOGUE CHRISTOPHER: (1926-2011) British poet associated with the British Poetry Revival. T.L.S., Christopher Logue, one page, 4to, Denbigh Close, London, 29th June 1978, to [Stephen] Brook. Logue politely declines a commission, ´Having gone over your generous, original, and flattering offer, I have decided to decline it partly on the bad grounds that it frightens me, and partly because I want to resist the tendency in my character to fragment my energy´ and continues to explain ´What is more, I have become very conscious of my ignorance about other people; the thoughts and the feelings of other people, I mean. You might well reply: If your realisation is sincere, what better way of amending your ignorance than to spend a month traveling the country, listening to and noticing people while they elect their leaders? To this I can only reply: It is not so much the experience of others I lack, but the capacity to think it through. And that this is, to my mind, best done at home´. VG Stephen Brook (1947- ) English author and wine journalist, a former editor of The Atlantic Monthly Magazine and publisher at Routledge, Kegan & Paul from 1976-80.