Collection on Amy Clampitt 1938-1998

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Collection on Amy Clampitt 1938-1998

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Amy Clampitt worked as a librarian, freelance editor, and writer who achieved critical acclaim beginning in the 1980s. This collection show Clampitt's evolution as a poet and consists of two boxes of periodicals, proof copies, and sound recordings of Clampitt's work.

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DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University

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Clampitt, Amy, 1920-1994

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Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Grinnell College she began a study of English literature that eventually led her to poetry. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly in New York City. To support herself, she worked as a secretary at the Oxford University Press, a reference librarian at the Audubon Society, and a freelance editor. Not until the mid...

DeGolyer Library

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Amy Clampitt (June, 1920-September, 1994) grew up in the Quaker community of New Providence, Iowa. She wrote Shakespearean sonnets as a young girl, but by the time she attended Grinnell College she had decided that being a poet was untenable. After graduating with honors, she pursued graduate studies at Columbia University briefly and then turned to publishing. She worked at Oxford University Press for five years; gave herself five months of travel abroad; and then returned to New York City to w...