Robert Fitzgerald papers 1892-1986

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Robert Fitzgerald papers 1892-1986

Series I, Correspondence, consists chiefly of incoming personal and professional correspondence and family correspondence. The collection is particularly rich for its correspondence with poets, editors, translators, publishers, and literary scholars and critics during the middle part of the 20th century. There are letters from many well-known poets writing in English during this period, including W.H. Auden, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, James Dickey, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, James Merrill, Ezra Pound, Laura Riding, and William Carlos Williams. Critics include R.P. Blackmur and Francis Fergusson. Larger files exist for Dudley Fitts, Caroline Gordon, James Laughlin, T.S. Matthews, John Frederick Nims, and Allen Tate. Series II, Writings of Robert Fitzgerald, is subdivided for articles and essays, autobiographical writings, criticism, diaries, edited works, lectures and speeches, obituaries and tributes, open letters, plays, poetry, reviews, school work, short stories, and translations. Translations include corrected drafts and galley proofs for the Iliad and drafts, setting copies, and page proofs for the Aeneid. Series III, Writings of Others, contains drafts and printed versions of work by others, including writers, colleagues, and students. In general, there are drafts of work for students (or former students) and clippings or copies of printed work for better-known writers, though there are drafts of poems by Dudley Fitts, James Laughlin, Archibald MacLeish, and Allen Tate. Series IV, Financial and Legal Records, is subdivided for bank records, bills and receipts, contracts, copyright registration, insurance documents, loan records, material relating to Fitzgerald estates, real estate, royalty statements, and tax documents. Series V, Personal Papers, is subdivided for artwork, clippings, family papers, material relating to Time magazine, medical and military records, notes and notebooks, photographs, printed ephemera, real estate, school records, speaking engagements, and teaching and course material.

Total Boxes: 123 (incl. 9 oversize boxes); Linear Feet: 54.35'

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Laughlin, James, 1914-1997

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Merrill, James, 1926-1995

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American poet. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) and typed letters signed (3) : Athens, Key West and Stonington, Ct., to Robert Isaacson, 1966-1983 Aug. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270871528 James Merrill was an American poet, playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. From the description of James Merrill collection of papers, 1965-1994. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122626315 From the guide to the James Mer...

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965

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Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965), a poet, critic, editor, and playwright, was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received a B. A. in 1909 and an M. A. in 1910 from Harvard, where he also pursued a doctoral degree in philosophy. In 1915, he married Vivienne (Vivien) Haigh-Wood. He completed his dissertation in 1916 while living in England and submitted it to Harvard, but was unable to defend it. He was literary editor of the avant-garde magazine The Egoist. In the Spring 1917, he publishe...

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977

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American poet Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was born in Boston on March 1, 1917, to Robert Traill Spence Lowell III and Charlotte Winslow Lowell, a relation of writers James Russell Lowell and Amy Lowell. In addition to being the descendant of poets, Lowell encountered and was taught by numerous prominent poets during his classicist education. Lowell attended St. Mark's School (1930-1935), where he was influenced by Richard Eberhart, and Harvard University (1935-1937). In 1937, Boston psychiatr...

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979

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Poet Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and had an often difficult childhood in Canada and New England. She wrote poetry in her youth, and developed as a writer at Vassar, where her friends included Mary McCarthy and Marianne Moore. In 1946 she published a book of poetry titled North and South, and travelled to Brazil, where she remained for fifteen years. Her 1956 book of poetry, A Cold Spring, won the Pulitzer Prize; her verse was noted for precision and balance. She also p...

Fitzgerald, Robert, 1910-1985

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Robert Fitzgerald (1910-1985) was an American poet, educator, and critic who was best known for his translations of Greek classics. From the description of Homer's "Odyssey" in translation : manuscripts, 1953-1960. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82743704 From the guide to the Robert Fitzgerald papers for Homer's "Odyssey" in translation, 1953-1960., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) American poet. From the descrip...

Berryman, John, 1914-1972

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John Berryman (1914-1972) was an American poet and teacher. From the description of John Berryman collection, 1938-1971. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122486626 American modernist poet. From the description of Acceptance speech for the National Book Award in poetry, 1969 March 12 / John Berryman. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18347371 From the description of Mesa encantada : typescript, 1935 April. (Universit...

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963

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Riding, Laura, 1901-1991

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Laura Riding, American writer, was born in New York and educated at Brooklyn High and Cornell Univ. She began writing poetry while in college and her early poems appeared in, The fugitive (edited by Allen Tate and Robert Warren), as well as Harriet Monroe's, Poetry (a magazine). In 1926, she published her first volume of poetry, The close chaplet. Riding has written and published criticism, essays, a journal, poetry, novels and short stories. She also ran the Seizin Press for some time. Her Coll...

Fitzgerald, Penelope Laurans

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Fergusson, Francis.

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Literary critic. From the description of Reminiscences of Francis Fergusson : oral history, 1979. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122308338 ...

Matthews, T. S. (Thomas Stanley), 1901-

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Editor. From the description of Reminiscences of T.S. Matthews : oral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309733484 ...

Tate, Allen, 1899-1979

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Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, literary critic, novelist, and translator. From the description of Allen Tate collection of papers, 1935-1971. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652060 From the guide to the Allen Tate collection of papers, 1935-1971, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) John Orley Allen Tate was born in Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky, in 1899. He atte...

Macleish, Archibald

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Archibald MacLeish (1892-1982) was an American poet. Kaiser is a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. From the description of Letters to Walter Jacob Kaiser, 1955-1957 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367921 MacLeish (1892-1982) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American poet, playwright, teacher, librarian of Congress, and public official. He was also Boylston professor at Harvard (1949-1962). From the description of Scratch : manu...

Green, Eleanor, 1911-....

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Dickey, James.

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American novelist and poet, born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. His southern roots are clearly evident in his writing. He is the the author of more than 17 books of poetry and 14 books of prose. From the description of Papers, 1954-1970 (inclusive), 1957-1967 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155180763 Dickey is an American novelist, poet, essayist and educator. A native of Atlanta, Georgia, Dickey is the author of more than 17 books of poetry and 14 books of prose. ...

Gordon, Caroline, 1895-1981

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Not certain if the author is Caroline Gordon, 1895-1981. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to [Richard M. Ludwig?], 1969 Dec. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270856877 Caroline Ferguson Gordon, born October 6, 1895, grew up on a farm in Kentucky. In 1925 she married Allen Tate, a poet and literary critic who led the charge of the Southern Agrarian literary movement. Together they pursued their careers in writing, forging close bonds with legendary ...

Nims, John Frederick, 1913-1999

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American poet, editor, and translator. From the description of John Frederick Nims collection of miscellaneous writings and reviews, 1936-1998. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 776694600 ...

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet, was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1925-1928, then served as a schoolmaster in various institutions in England and Scotland from 1930 to 1935, including The Downs School in Colwell. In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a writer and the daughter of Thomas Mann, so that she could gain British Citizenship and escape Nazi Germany. Although the two never lived together, they remained married until Mann's death in ...

Fitts, Dudley, 1903-1968

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Dudley Fitts (1903-1968), poet, translator, literary critic, and educator. From the description of Dudley Fitts papers, 1928-1968 (bulk 1941-1943). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702139069 Dudley Fitts was a poet, translator, literary critic, and educator. Fitts was perhaps best known for his translations of classical texts. He translated several works by Aristophanes, including Lysistrata (1954), The Frogs (1955), The Birds (1957), and Ladies' Day (1959) and, i...

Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965

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American literary critic, author, and professor of English at Princeton University from 1951. From the description of Manuscripts. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122529910 Blackmur was an American literary critic and poet. From the description of Poems, 1921-1964. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122505745 From the guide to the R. P. (Richard P.) Blackmur poems, 1921-1964., (Houghton Library, Harvard College L...

Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970

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Louise Bogan was an American poet, critic, and teacher; she was poetry editor of The New Yorker for many years. From the description of Papers, 1930-1990 (inclusive), 1930-1970 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122615911 Louise Bogan was born on August 11, 1897 in Livermore Falls, Maine. She was raised in Milton, New Hampshire and Ballardvale, Massachusetts and lived most of her adult life in New York City. She was educated at Boston Girls' Latin School beginning in 191...