My Friend Tom: The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams PDF
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My Friend Tom _ My Friend Tom The Poet-Playwright Tennessee Williams William Jay Smith Foreword by Suzanne Marrs University Press of Mississippi Jackson www.upress.state.ms.us The University Press of Mississippi is a member of the Association of American University Presses. Copyright © 2012 by William Jay Smith All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing 2012 ∞ Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smith, William Jay, 1918- My friend Tom : the poet-playwright Tennessee Williams / William Jay Smith ; foreword by Suzanne Marrs. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-1-61703-175-5 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61703-176-2 (ebook) 1. Williams, Tennessee, 1911–1983—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Williams, Tennessee, 1911–1983—Friends and associates. 3. Smith, William Jay, 1918–—Friends and associates. I. Title. PS3545.I5365Z8355 2012 812’.54—dc23 [B] 2011031697 British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available To Thomas Keith This page intentionally left blank Bind us in time, O Seasons clear, and awe. O minstrel galleons of Carib fire, Bequeath us to no earthly shore until Is answered in the vortex of our grave The seal’s wide spindrift gaze toward paradise. —Hart Crane This page intentionally left blank Contents Foreword xi Preface xix Prologue 3 1. Thomas Lanier Williams, Washington University: St. Louis, 1935–1940 7 2. Battle of Angels: Boston, 1940 51 3. The Glass Menagerie: New York, 1946 59 4. The Poet, Lyric and Dramatic 67 5. A Streetcar Named Desire: New York, 1947 81 6. Williams and Frank Merlo: Florence, 1949 87 7. With Williams at a Performance of America Hurrah by Jean-Claude van Itallie: New York, 1966 106 8. Reading of Williams at Lynchburg College: Virginia, 1979 110 9. Clothes for a Summer Hotel: New York, March 26, 1980 125 my friend tom • ix •
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