Hugo Manning Papers 1942-1977

Sassoon, Siegfried, 1886-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s57k28 (person)

Poet and writer Siegfried Loraine Sassoon was born on 8 September 1886 at Weirleigh, near Matfield in Kent. His mother, Georgiana Theresa Thornycroft, was from a prominent family of sculptors and artists, while his father, Alfred Ezra Sassoon, came from a wealthy Jewish merchant family. His father left home when he was seven and died soon after, so Siegfried and his brothers, Michael and Hamo, were raised solely by their mother. Educated at Marlborough College (1902-4), Sassoon read law at Cl...

Spender, Stephen, 1909-1995

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fv9bj6 (person)

Sir Stephen Harold Spender (February 28, 1909 - July 16, 1995) was an English poet and novelist who worked with the themes of social injustice and class struggle. Spender was born in London and educated at University College, Oxford. He was mentored by W. H. Auden with whom he maintained a life-long friendship. He edited Horizon with Cyril Connolly from 1939-1941. Following WW II, Spender devoted his time to criticism, co-editing the magazine Encounter from 1953-1966. Spender also held a number ...

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6650f4k (person)

Ezra Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962). Pound's contribution to poetry began in the early 20th century with his role in developing Imagism, a movement stressing precision and economy of language. Working in London as foreign editor of several American l...

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64r8k15 (person)

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...

Treece, Henry, 1911-1966

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x07mdp (person)

Supervielle, Jules, 1884-1960

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hh6tnc (person)

Jules Supervielle, a poet, dramatist, and short-story writer of Basque descent, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He died in Paris in 1960. From the guide to the Jules Supervielle collection, 1922-1947, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Poet, dramatist, and short-story writer of Basque descent. From the description of Jules Supervielle collection, 1922-1947. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162439 From the description of Jules Supervielle colle...

Durrell, Lawrence

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6404p8f (person)

Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61834pn (person)

Victoria Sackville-West (1892-1962), English poet, novelist, and author of books on gardening, known for her association with the Bloomsbury group and the gardens she designed at Sissinghurst Castle. From the description of Passenger to Teheran, 1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702191711 From the description of Victoria Sackville-West writings and commonplace book, 1910-1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702184003 Vita Sackville-West was an English novelist, p...

Johnson, Eyvind, 1900-1976

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m3514j (person)

Block, Ernest, 1880-1959

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6199p8h (person)

Gerhardi, William

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g03s52 (person)

de le Guarde, Alfredo

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tz9wzn (person)

Freud, Anna, 1895-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h25rgf (person)

Praz, Mario

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66v73kt (person)

Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vr3rqt (person)

Psychoanalyst and author. From the description of Letter, 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 34149490 Psychologist and psychiatrist. From the description of C.G. Jung papers, 1909-1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983585 Epithet: Professor psychologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x0000da Swiss psychoanalyst. From the description of C.G. Ju...

Alberti, Rafael, 1902-1999

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x63sd9 (person)

Usborne, John

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6307n3m (person)

Garrett, Eileen J. (Eileen Jeanette), 1893-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67h27tk (person)

Medium. From the description of Seance records, 1929-1932. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155485763 Trance medium. From the description of Correspondence with Margaret Naumburg, 1933-1938. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 63585665 ...

Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wd4173 (person)

Hermann Hesse was a German writer, popular but often politically out of step in his native country. His social criticism, and especially his focus on the individual and inner spirituality, contributed to extraordinary popularity in America in the 1960s. From the description of Hermann Hesse letter to D. Kilham Roberts, 1950 January 9. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 49344033 German author. From the description of Zwölfe Gedichte vo...

Graves, Robert, 1895-1985

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sn0bn5 (person)

Robert (Von Ranke) Graves was born in London in 1895. He attended King's College School and Rokeby School, Wimbledon, Copthorne School, Sussex, Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, 1907-14. In 1926, he received a B. Litt. From St. John's College, Oxford. He was the author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, autobiographies, historical novels, essays, librettos, criticism, short stories, and children’s books. Graves also translated and edited a number of works. He died in 1985 in Deya, Majorca, Sp...

Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ks6rjk (person)

Patchen and MacLeish, were both American poets. From the description of [Letter, 19]51 Mar. 12, Old Lyme, Conn. [to] Archibald MacLeish / Kenneth Patchen. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 314411191 American poet, novelist, artist. From the description of Letter to Julien Cornell, 1951 January 5. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49380977 American poet. From the description of Prospectus for "The Dark Kingdom", 1942. (Universit...

Betjeman, John, Sir, 1906-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sz60v3 (person)

O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6930vbg (person)

A biographical timeline is provided in the Eugene O'Neill Papers (YCAL MSS 123). From the guide to the Eugene O'Neill collection, 1912-1993, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) American playwright. From the description of Papers, 1913-1986, 1913-1950 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155490040 From the description of Papers of Eugene O'Neill [manuscript], 1915-1940. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810476 From the de...

Chagall, Marc, 1887-1985

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x34znv (person)

Russian-French painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed (1) and greeting cards signed (2) : Marseilles and St. Paul, to John Rewald, 1941 Jan. 3, 1967 July 18 and [n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870508 Marc Chagall was a Russian-born painter working chiefly in France whose works frequently featured themes from Russian-Jewish folklore and from the Bible. From the description of Marc Chagall letter to D. Vaughan, 1967 February 21. (Pennsyl...

Lehmann, Rosamond, 1901-1990

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pk0vww (person)

Rosamond Lehmann was an author, editor, and translator, probably most widely known as a novelist. Born in England to a well-to-do Edwardian family, she attended Cambridge and found success with her first novel, the semiautobiographical Dusty Answer. Her work had a particularly feminine quality, featuring lyrical prose and psychological insight, but slightly repetitive plots; she was often compared with Virginia Woolf as a stylist with a strongly feminine perspective. She also served as vice-pres...

Britten, Benjamin

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv1hwd (person)

Composed 1938. First performance at a Promenade Concert, by the British Broadcasting Co. Symphony Orchestra, London, Aug. 18, 1938, in Queen's Hall, Sir Henry J. Wood conductor, composer at the piano.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto no. 1 in D major for piano and orchestra / Benjamin Britten. [1928]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43291276 Composed 1939. First performance by the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, New...

Cunard, Nancy, 1896-1965

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x92jb5 (person)

Nancy Clare Cunard (March 10, 1896 - March 17, 1965) was an English writer, editor, publisher, political activist, anarchist and poet. She became a muse to some of the 20th century's most distinguished writers and artists, including Wyndham Lewis, Aldous Huxley, Tristan Tzara, Ezra Pound, and Louis Aragon, who were among her lovers, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Constantin Brancusi, Langston Hughes, Man Ray, and William Carlos Williams. In later years she suffered from mental illness, and her p...

Macaulay, Rose, Dame

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69t86mg (person)

MacDiarmid, Hugh, 1892-1978

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hx1cpp (person)

C. M. (Christopher Murray) Grieve [Hugh McDiarmid, 1892-1978] was a Scottish poet, writer, and cultural activist. Politically, he was both a nationalist, helping found the National Party of Scotland in 1928, and a communist. During the 1930's, he was expelled from each group for his membership in the other. His nationalist leanings were, for a time, characterized by pre-Reformation Catholic Scotland "as a model of social, spiritual, and national coherence." (Roderick Watson, ODNB). Grieve founde...

Knight, George Wilson, 1897-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vd7d8x (person)

G. Wilson Knight (1897-1985) was born at Sutton, Surrey, and educated at Dulwich. He served as a Despatch Rider in Mesopotamia and, after the War, in Persia. Later he became Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds. From the guide to the Wilson Knight papers, 1916-1977, (Leeds University Library) ...

Stanford, Derek

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vz6z5b (person)

Manning, Hugo

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67w6xqt (person)

British poet, short story writer, translator, and lecturer. From the description of Papers, 1942-1977. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122590013 Hugo Manning was a poet, journalist and occasional artist. He was born In London of Jewish/Polish parents and in 1943 changed his name from Lazarus Perkoff. He was a journalist in places as diverse as Vienna and Buenos Aires. Manning was in the British intelligence ...

MacLeish, Archibald

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6433cv0 (person)

Miller, Henry

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tw16ht (person)

Gardiner, Charles Wrey, 1901-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n442w3 (person)

Hale, Lionel, 1909-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64t8q02 (person)

Lahr, Oonach

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kj742t (person)

Bronowski, J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s34j8q (person)

Lesansky, Mauricio, 1914-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tp3ss4 (person)

Read, Herbert, 1893-1968

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qz29gr (person)

Sir Herbert Edward Read was a poet, art critic and champion of modern art in Britain. He produced approximately 1,150 titles on a broad range of topics. His 80 monographs include: 26 on art and artists; 14 on literary criticism; 13 collections of poetry; 10 on politics, primarily on anarchism; 7 on "belles lettres" and biography; 5 on education, most notably "Education Through Art"; and 5 autobiographies. From the description of Sir Herbert Edward Read fonds. [1918-1965]. (University...

ApIvor, Denis

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ds9b1g (person)

Neuburg, Victor E.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mj2xhk (person)

Symonds, John

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6k529dp (person)

John, Augustus, 1878-1961

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j1092r (person)

The Welsh artist Augustus John was a successful painter and draftsman, and a well known bohemian figure. He was in great demand as a portraitist, although his works were often controversial. During WWI he was employed by the Canadian government as a war artist in France. John visited the United States as a guest of the Carnegie Institute in 1923. In 1942 King George VI awarded him the Order of Merit for services to art. From the description of Letters, 1917-ca. 1957. (Getty Research ...

Comfort, Alexander

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s91xxq (person)

Spark, Muriel

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6210m8t (person)

Perlès, Alfred

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60m8rgf (person)

Campbell, Roy, 1901-1957

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63j4g4c (person)

English poet. From the description of A Modern "Art of Poetry," [19--]. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936969 Campbell was an English poet and translator. Monro was an English poet, editor and bookseller. From the description of Compositions and correspondence, 1929-1951? and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79617715 From the guide to the Roy Campbell compositions and correspondence, 1929-1951? and undated., (Hought...

Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69s1qn4 (person)

Editor of Horizon magazine. From the description of Letter, [19--]. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23435570 ...