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Poetry Manuscripts Collection (State University of New York at Buffalo). Martin Seymour-Smith collection, 1930-1981.

Title: Martin Seymour-Smith collection, 1930-1981.

The Martin Seymour-Smith collection contains letters from Robert Creeley, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Robert Graves, Donald Hall, Philip Larkin, Tom Raworth, Giles Gordon, Terence Hards, Brian Higgins, Alan Hodge, Judith Nye, James Reeves, and Charles Sisson; notebooks, manuscripts, and/or proofs for many of Seymour-Smith's creative, critical, and biographical publications; photocopies of letters and diaries by Robert Graves; and photocopies of letters by Laura Riding Jackson.

ArchivalResource: 88 boxes (22 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/226401857 View

William Empson papers

Title: William Empson papers

Papers of the British poet and critic, William Empson, including his correspondence,manuscript compositions, biographical material, photographs, clippings, andcorrespondence and compositions of others.

ArchivalResource: 25 linear feet (22 boxes, 24 volumes, and 23 folders shelved as volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00064/catalog View

West, Paul, 1930-. Paul West papers, 1951-1992.

Title: Paul West papers, 1951-1992.

This collection contains notes, manuscripts, typescripts, and galley proofs for his biographical sketches, book reviews, essays, literary criticism, memoirs, poems, short stories, and unpublished and published novels, including Alley jaggers, Bela Lugosi's white christmas, Caliban's filibuster, Colonel Mint, Gala, I'm expecting to live quite soon, Lord Byron's doctor, Love's mansion, The Place in flowers where pollen rests, Rat man of Paris, Tenement of clay, The Very rich hours of Count von Stauffenberg, and The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the ripper. Also, includes photographs, a taped interview by Martha Deane on WOR radio (1970), cover painting of Tenement of Clay, awards, reviews of his work, and letters from Walter Ernest Allen, Frederick Wilse Bateson, Marguerite Caetani, Northrop Frye, Elizabeth Jennings, V.S. Pritchett, Alan Pryce- Jones, John Crowe Ransom, James Reeves, Ethel Rolt-Wheeler, Martin Seymour- Smith, John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, Robert Penn Warren, Basil Willey, and others.

ArchivalResource: 15 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32075254 View

Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991. Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1938-1966.

Title: Laura Riding Jackson papers.

Laura Riding Jackson (1901-1991) was an American poet, critic, and editor. She was closely associated with the Fugitive group, a cluster of American Southern writers centered at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, which included John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. She had a long partnership with Robert Graves; together they co-founded the Seizin Press, published several volumes of poetry, and co-edited the literary journal Epilogue. Jackson is generally acknowledged to have influenced the work of Graves, the New Zealand filmmaker Len Lye, and the writers James Reeves, Norman Cameron, T. S. Matthews, Jacob Bronowski, and W. H. Auden. The collection consists of correspondence between Jackson and Robert Nye, a British author, editor, and playwright, as well as manuscripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, and photographs. Subjects discussed include writers and writings, Martin Seymour-Smith, Robert Graves, and Nye. The papers of Laura Riding Jackson consist primarily of her correspondence, postcards, and notes to British writer Robert Nye. They also include manuscripts of two essays, seven photographs chiefly of Laura and Schuyler Jackson, and several clippings. The main topics include poetry, writing, language, and the pursuit of self-knowledge. Other subjects include her personal activities and observations on Martin Seymour-Smith, Robert Graves, and Nye himself. The correspondence also includes comments on several poets and writers, in particular, James Joyce, Hart Crane, Arthur Rimbaud, James Reeves, and George Buchanan.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 Linear Feet.

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1495 View

Finlay, Ian Hamilton,. Ian Hamilton Finlay correspondence, 1962-1969. S-Z.

Title: Ian Hamilton Finlay correspondence, 1962-1969. S-Z. 1962-1969.

Unpublished correspondence, some with original poetry, from various poets and others to Finlay, covering the years 1962-1969. The letters are a composite collection dealing chiefly with contemporary and avant-garde poetry, art movements, and with the addressee in his capacity as publisher of Wild Hawthorn Press.

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http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19479555 View

Jackson, Laura (Riding), 1901-1991. Laura (Riding) Jackson papers, 1938-1966.

Title: Laura Riding Jackson papers.

Laura Riding Jackson (1901-1991) was an American poet, critic, and editor. She was closely associated with the Fugitive group, a cluster of American Southern writers centered at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, which included John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. She had a long partnership with Robert Graves; together they co-founded the Seizin Press, published several volumes of poetry, and co-edited the literary journal Epilogue. Jackson is generally acknowledged to have influenced the work of Graves, the New Zealand filmmaker Len Lye, and the writers James Reeves, Norman Cameron, T. S. Matthews, Jacob Bronowski, and W. H. Auden. The collection consists of correspondence between Jackson and Robert Nye, a British author, editor, and playwright, as well as manuscripts, newspaper and magazine clippings, and photographs. Subjects discussed include writers and writings, Martin Seymour-Smith, Robert Graves, and Nye. The papers of Laura Riding Jackson consist primarily of her correspondence, postcards, and notes to British writer Robert Nye. They also include manuscripts of two essays, seven photographs chiefly of Laura and Schuyler Jackson, and several clippings. The main topics include poetry, writing, language, and the pursuit of self-knowledge. Other subjects include her personal activities and observations on Martin Seymour-Smith, Robert Graves, and Nye himself. The correspondence also includes comments on several poets and writers, in particular, James Joyce, Hart Crane, Arthur Rimbaud, James Reeves, and George Buchanan.

ArchivalResource: 0.75 Linear Feet.

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1495 View