{"id":2269,"date":"2013-03-20T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2013-03-20T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T19:58:26","slug":"famous-authors-to-famous-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/03\/20\/famous-authors-to-famous-authors\/","title":{"rendered":"Famous Authors To Famous Authors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an example of fan letters written by famous authors to famous authors, here is a sample of W.H. Auden&#8217;s words to James Agee&#8217;s editors in 1944:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In my opinion, his column is the most remarkable regular event in American journalism to-day. What he says is of such profound interest, expressed with such extraordinary wit and felicity, and so transcends its ostensible \u2014 to me, rather unimportant \u2014 subject, that his articles belong in that very select class \u2014 the music criques of Berlioz and Shaw are the other members I know \u2014 of newspaper work which has permanent literary value.<\/p>\n<p>One foresees the sad day, indeed, when Agee on Films will be the subject of a Ph.D. thesis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>W.H. Auden&#8217;s work is often studied in Core classes.<\/p>\n<p>For other such letters, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/11k9FER\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/11k9FER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an example of fan letters written by famous authors to famous authors, here is a sample of W.H. Auden&#8217;s words to James Agee&#8217;s editors in 1944: In my opinion, his column is the most remarkable regular event in American journalism to-day. What he says is of such profound interest, expressed with such extraordinary wit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[898,244,477,3856],"tags":[2177,44995,44812,5466,4142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}