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Stevie Smith

In Our Time: Culture

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The Poems of James Smith

The drawings are sometimes almost like a kind of comment on the poem, but they're not necessarily illustrations. There's a really interesting match actually with the very earliest drawings we have from Smith. So she inherited her sister's library full of scholarly books and her sister writes all over them. She does scholarly annotations as if she's going to study university and Smith reads them. We can tell that she's looked at the pages, but we have absolutely no idea which thought about them.

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