Jackson Mathews Papers, . 1927-1975

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Jackson Mathews Papers, ., 1927-1975

Jackson Mathews Papers, . 1927-1975

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Jackson Mathews was an editor, teacher, poet, and translator. He taught at Harvard and Princeton universities and the universities of Georgia, Oregon, and Washington. He was an editor for Bollingen Foundation publications and worked with numerous American poets. He was general editor of the 15-volume Complete Works of Paul Valery. Correspondence, writings, pictures, and other materials, chiefly 1945-1974, relating to Jackson Mathews. Correspondence concerns academic matters at the universities where he taught; scholarly matters, especially translations of French literature; the work of the Bollingen Foundation; and the National Translation Center. Correspondents include Robert Fitzgerald (1910- ), Theodore Roethke, (1908-1963), Allen Tate (1899- ), Carolyn Kizer, W.H. Auden (1907-1973), Yves Bonnefoy (1923- ), Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Rene Char (1907- ), and William Carlos Williams (1883- 1963). Also included are materials relating to translations of the works of Paul Valery(1871-1945), Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867), Rene Char, and Saint-John Perse (1887-1975.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection