Papers of Adrienne Rich, 1927-1999

Hansberry, Lorraine Vivian, 1930-1965

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68x465v (person)

Lorraine Hansberry (born May 19, 1930, Chicago, Illinois - died January 12, 1965, New York City), African-American playwright, writer and activist, is best known for her play, "A Raisin in the Sun." Born in 1930 in Chicago to real estate broker, Carl Hansberry and Nannie Louise Perry (her uncle was the Africanist scholar, William Leo Hansberry), Lorraine grew up on the south side of Chicago. "A Raisin in the Sun" was inspired by her father's legal battle against a racially restrictive covenant ...

Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qg9k0m (corporateBody)

Vanessa Bell was born in 1879, daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen and sister of Virginia Woolf. She studied art under Sir Arthur Cope and at the Royal Academy Schools under John Singer Sargent. In 1907 she married Clive Bell and worked mainly in London, Sussex and France. Vanessa Bell exhibited first at the New Gallery in 1905, and at the New English Art Club, the Allied Artists Association and at numerous London galleries. She became a member of the London Group in 1919 and her work was exhibited a...

Sweeney, John Lincoln, 1906-1986

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qs5nbh (person)

Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60m2zqs (person)

Adrienne Cecile Rich, poet, author, feminist, and teacher, was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on May 16, 1929, the daughter of Helen (Jones) and Arnold Rice Rich. She attended the Roland Park Country School in Baltimore, Md. (1938-47). A 1951 graduate of Radcliffe College, in that year she won the Yale Younger Poets Award with the publication of her first book, A Change of World . Following her studies at Oxford University (winter 1952-53), she traveled through Europe. The following de...

Perse, St. -John.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zb3cmq (person)

Donald Hall

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rp7hqt (person)

Aiko Carter.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f90kft (person)

Wilbur, Richard

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63w1vxj (person)

Richard Wilbur (1921- ) is an American poet and literary translator. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, for Things of This World (1956) in 1957 (for which he also won the National Book Award) and for New and Collected Poems (1988) in 1989. Among Wilbur's other honors are the 1983 Drama Desk Special Award for his translation of The Misanthrope, the Edna St Vincent Millay Award, t...

Kalstone, David.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n62ffr (person)

Laura Brown

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v26351 (person)

Kelly, Robert, 1935-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6nt2z1s (person)

Edith Hamilton

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tg3ph7 (person)

Hall, Donald, 1928-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n018qt (person)

Hall is an American poet, essayist, and teacher. From the description of Compositions 1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122609338 From the description of Papers, 1956-1965. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122357326 From the guide to the Donald Hall papers, 1956-1965., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) From the guide to the Compositions, 1962., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Universit...

John Benedict

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xj3f41 (person)

Thwaite, Anthony

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mw3jsf (person)

Anthony Thwaite, English poet and author, was a long time friend of expatriate Australian poet Peter Porter (1929-2010). From the description of Papers of Anthony Thwaite, 1967-2009 [manuscript]. [1967-2009] (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 773838544 Epithet: poet and critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x000343 ...

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kp80v7 (person)

Sponsored by Stanford University, the English Department, the Creative Writing Program, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Library, and the Library Associates. From the description of A symposium on his poetry and his place in American letters : recording, 2005 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864090 David Shaff was at Yale at this time; he wrote and edited poetry. From the description of Letters to David O. Schaff, 1962-1965. (Unknown). WorldC...

Douglas, Alfred Bruce, Lord

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qp6dcd (person)

Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x0001ec ...

Bingham, Joseph, 1668-1723

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wj2f2f (person)

Epithet: MP for county Dorset British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x0001c7 Epithet: Assistant Surgeon, Royal Artillery British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x0001c6 Title: Baron Clanmorris British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001439.0x0001ca ...

Powell, Sumner C.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fk60g8 (person)

Litewka, Jack

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61v974v (person)

Dahlen, Beverly

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x18jdk (person)

Roland Park Country School

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68q994g (corporateBody)

Gravelle, Barbara

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vd91z3 (person)

Waldrop, Keith.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tv72c9 (person)

Michael Gizzi was born in Schenectady, New York in 1949 to Carolyn and Anthony Gizzi. He had two brothers, Peter and Thomas Gizzi. He spent part of his childhood living in Ohio and lived in East Greenwich, Rhode Island for three years (10th, 11th, and 12th grade) of high school. His parents moved up to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and he returned to Rhode Island as an undergraduate student at Brown University where he recieved a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. He would return to Brown...

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61n80n7 (person)

Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), first poet laureate of the United States, was a poet, writer of fiction, and co-author with Cleanth Brooks of influential textbooks on literature. He won Pulitzer Prizes for All the King's Men (1946) and for volumes of poetry, Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1979). From the description of Robert Penn Warren papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132948 Robert Penn Warren served on the faculty of Louisiana State University, Dept...

Viereck, Peter, 1916-2006

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mp54rq (person)

Peter Viereck (1916-2006) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, and a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. From the guide to the Peter Viereck Manuscripts, 1963-1965, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) Peter Viereck is an accomplished American poet, historian, and scholar. His verse features a unique gift for rhyme, lyricism, and an almost metaphysical infatuation with ideas. His combination of traditional forms with intelle...

John Berryman

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6071gbw (person)

Mueller, Lisel

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6737jbs (person)

Cooper, Jane, 1940-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63z2zth (person)

Burgess, Anthony

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zq68vj (person)

Lamb, Emerson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c57d85 (person)

Giraud, Robert

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6721r96 (person)

Eshleman, Clayton

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m6249x (person)

Clayton Eshleman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1935. He earned a B.A. in philosophy and an M.A. in creative writing, both from Indiana University. He is the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose, including Under World Arrest (1994), Companion Spider (2002), An Alchemist with One Eye on the Fire (2006), and Reciprocal Distillations (2007), and has translated the work of César Vallejo and Aimé Césaire, among others. He founded and edited the literary magazines Caterpillar (196...

Duncan, Robert A.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6v51f6r (person)

Epithet: film maker British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x000248 ...

Vaux, Molly

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c101dc (person)

Wakoski, Diane.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj47wf (person)

Poet. From the description of Letters, 1984-1996. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 47287823 American poet. From the description of Papers, 1959-[ongoing] (bulk 1959-1978) (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 28318855 Diane Wakoski (b. 1937), American poet and teacher. From the description of Diane Wakoski poems, 1971-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702199357 From the description of Diane Wakoski letters to John ...

Mayes, Frances

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rn5b5g (person)

Mitch Goodman

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qm1mjj (person)

Georgoudaki, Ekaterini

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fc9gj1 (person)

Conrad, Alfred H.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zx51fz (person)

Griffin, Susan

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66f83cc (person)

Dionne Brand

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66z3gdn (person)

Leontief, Estelle

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6963b90 (person)

Mina Shaughnessy

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vg0x68 (person)

Susan Wood-Thompson

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hg2002 (person)

Lowell, Robert, 1816-1891

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68w3f6g (person)

Protestant Episcopal clergyman and poet. From the description of Letters to the Rev. Julius Hammond Ward [manuscript], 1864-1891. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812010 ...

Hayden Carruth

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r34z2p (person)

Olsen, Tillie

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k47x5j (person)

Biography Tillie Olsen was born in Nebraska in 1913 and has lived in San Francisco for most of her life. Her education was cut short by the Depression: she wrote and published when young, but the necessity of raising and supporting four children and full-time work prevented her from writing for twenty years. She was in her mid-forties before she began again. Tell Me A Riddle was originally published in 1962, and its title novella received the...

Conrad, Alfred

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zf1t9b (person)

Merwin, Bill

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jz28qx (person)

Rich, Helen

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m18cp9 (person)

Cheryl Walker

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62m0d3z (person)

Griffin, Joanna.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hc36j2 (person)

Martin, Wendy, 1940-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mt7d8w (person)

Olson, Charles, 1910-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r78jxt (person)

Charles Olson, the leading voice of the Black Mountain poets, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was a notable student at Wesleyan University, where his groundbreaking work on Herman Melville evolved into the highly praised monograph, Call Me Ishmael. Inspired by Franklin Roosevelt, Olson worked his way up through the Democratic Party, but quit after Roosevelt's death, and began a brilliant career as a writer and educator. His manifesto, Projective Verse, influenced a generation of poets ...

Robert Roth

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mf2cnq (person)

Gorbanevskaia, Natalia

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6xx8trb (person)

Margareta Faissler

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rw4zpp (person)

Rosemarie Waldrop.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tp0x5k (person)

Meredith, William, 1919-2007

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dj623h (person)

Epithet: Organist of New College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000304.0x0002bd William Meredith was an American poet, literary critic, librettist, and translator. From the description of William Meredith collection of papers, 1941-1973. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122430869 From the guide to the William Meredith collection of papers, 1941-1973, (The New York Pub...

George Macbeth

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64s1c0x (person)

Howard, Richard, 1929-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n2hqp (person)

Epithet: brother of Thomas, 8th Duke of Norfolk British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x000143 Epithet: Canon of Bangor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x000144 Epithet: Lieutenant; RN British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000866.0x000145 ...

Bambara, Toni Cade

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt3vgm (person)

Merwin, William S.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6401xpk (person)

Denise Levertov

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sw25g1 (person)

McDaniel, Judith

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wz0h7w (person)

Joyce, James, 1882-1941

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69d7mg4 (person)

James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...

Judith Lerner

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gk30m7 (person)

Levertov, Denise, 1923-1997

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65d8rrh (person)

The interview took place at Wells College, New York. From the description of Audio interviews with poet Denise Levertov by Clive Scott Chisholm : sound recordings, 1973 Jan. 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864806 Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Denise Levertov and her husband, Mitchell Goodman. From the description of Letters, 1965-1976, to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871475 ...

Ted Morrison

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h84xhn (person)