T. S. Eliot Collection 1905, 1917-1979

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...

Knight, W. F. Jackson (William Francis Jackson), 1895-1964

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Mairet, Philip, 1886-1975

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Duncan, Ronald, 1914-1982

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Author. From the description of Papers 1960. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 702663838 Ronald Duncan, playwright. From the description of The death of Satan: typescript, 1955. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122626260 Ronald Duncan (1914-1982) was born of Austro-German parents in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe) in 1914. When World War One broke out Ronald came to South London with his mother and sister. Hi...

Pudney, John, 1909-1977

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British poet, novelist, and editor. From the description of Papers, 1850-1977 (bulk 1926-1976). (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122692658 John Sleigh Pudney, British poet, novelist, editor, and journalist was born on January 19, 1909, in Langley, Buckinghamshire, England. The only son of Henry William Pudney and Mabel Sleigh Pudney, he was reared in the country, but was sent away for his educati...

Belgion, Montgomery, 1892-....

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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972

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Poet, acting editor of The Dial magazine, 1925-1929. Born Marianne Craig Moore. From the description of Book manuscripts, 1935-1967. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122417395 From the description of Albums, [ca. 1905-1936]. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122524976 From the description of Family correspondence, 1848-1972, bulk 1905-1972. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122540617 From the desc...

Heppenstall, Rayner, 1911-1981

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(John) Rayner Heppenstall (1911-1981), the novelist, poet, critic, BBC producer, and criminal historian, was born in Lockwood, Huddersfield, on 27 July 1911 and educated at Huddersfield College and Leeds University, where he graduated in Modern Languages in 1932, and obtained a Diploma in Education in 1933. After a brief period teaching in Dagenham, he moved to London to start a career as a freelance writer and critic. Here he met many other writers and wrote most of his published poetry before ...

Mason, Eudo Colecestra.

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Eudo Colecestra Mason - Colchester Mason - was born in Colchester on 26 September 1901. He went to school in Cambridge and studied in Oxford and Cambridge. He held posts as a Lektor at Muenster, Leipzig, and Basle, taking his doctorate in Leipzig with a thesis on R. M. Rilke. He later became a D.Litt., Oxford. Mason came to Edinburgh University as a Lecturer in 1946, and became Professor of German in 1951. His publications include Rilke's apotheosis (1938), Der Zopf des Muenchausen (1949), The m...

Wright, David, 1920-1994

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David (John Murray) Wright, the poet and writer, was born on 23 February 1920 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He became deaf at the age of seven, was brought to England at the age of fourteen to attend the Northampton School for the Deaf, and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1942. Between 1965 and 1967 he was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds. His first poetry collection, Poems, was published by Poetry London in 1949. He subsequently published numerous other books of p...

Seldes, Gilbert, 1893-1970

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Gilbert Vivian Seldes, author, journalist, drama critic, editor and director of TV for the Columbia Broadcasting System. Attended Harvard (1914), was a war correspondent, editor of The Dial 1920-1923. Wrote numerous books on topics of the times: the depression, contemporary America, the movies, and prohibition and also wrote detectice stories under the name of John Forbes. An early director of TV for the Columbia Broadcasting Company. Brother of George Seldes. Lola Koven...

ApIvor, Denis.

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Russell, Peter, 1921-2003

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Peter Russell was an English poet, translator and critic. In the mid 1970s he held a writing fellowship as poet in residence at the University of Victoria in British Columbia. In 1979 he settled permanently in Italy, where he spent the rest of his life. From the description of Peter Russell fonds. [1947-1972]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 676750031 British poet and publisher Peter Irwin Russell was born in 1921; his first book of poetry was publish...

Monro, Harold, 1879-1932

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Harold Monro was born in Brussels to Scottish parents, and educated at Cambridge. He wrote and published poetry, and founded the influential magazine, Poetry Review. He is best remembered for opening the Poetry Bookshop in London, where he published new collections of poems and created a hospitable environment for poets and readers. He also served in World War I, returning to the Bookshop in 1919. A modest poet, Monro led a troubled personal life, but aided and befriended many notable 20th centu...

Du Bos, Charles, 1882-1939

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Aldington, Richard, 1892-1962

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Richard Aldington, British poet, novelist and essayist. From the description of Richard Aldington collection, 1918-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81650599 From the description of Richard Aldington collection, 1918-1962. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702148171 Richard Aldington was born in Hampshire in 1882. Educated at Dover College and London University he founded the "Egotist journal "in 1913. He joined the British Army and served on the Western Front in 19...

Du Sautoy, Peter.

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Levy, William Turner, 1922-2008

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Episcopal minister, retired English professor. Levy was a friend of Eleanor Roosevelt during the last ten years of her life. From the description of Papers, 1928-1962, 1952-1962 (bulk) (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155523751 ...

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941

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Virginia Woolf (b. January 25, 1882, London, England–d. March 28, 1941, Ouse, River, Englnad) was a noted novelist and is now viewed as a pioneer of feminist literature. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, comprised of English artists, philosophers, and writers in the early twentieth century. She was also a co-founder and operator (along with husband Leonard Woolf) of Hogarth Press. Though she received little formal education, her father, a writer and editor with strong ...

Dorn, Marion.

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Sherek, Henry.

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Moore, T. Sturge (Thomas Sturge), 1870-1944

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Thomas Sturge Moore was an English poet, playwright, and art critic. Largely self-educated, Moore wrote books on modern artists and volumes of poems. His correspondence with William Butler Yeats has been published. From the description of T. Sturge Moore papers, 1918 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 26507462 From the guide to the T. Sturge Moore Papers, 1918, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Rare Book Literary and Historical Papers.) Thomas St...

Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954

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Artist and graphic designer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Messrs. Duckworth & Co., 1922, Nov 12. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 759590617 Edward McKnight Kauffer (b. Dec. 14, 1890, Great Falls, Montana-d. Oct. 22, 1954, New York City) was an American-born artist noted for his avant garde graphic design and poster art, especially in Britain. From the description of Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954 (U.S. National...

Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969

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Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia Woolf, was a unique thinker and theorist in his own right--sophisticated, principled, and humane. His legacy is inextricably tied with the Bloomsbury Set, one of the most influential literary groups of the 20th century, and with Hogarth Press, which he co-founded with his wife. From the description of Leonard Woolf letter to Wigram, 1935 June 10. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 52221264 Leonard Sidney Woolf (1...

Kelly, Gerald, 1879-1972

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Healy, J. V.

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Barker, George, 1913-1991

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George Granville Barker (1913-1991), the English poet, was born in Essex. He taught in Japan and the United States as well as in England. His highly dramatic poems, often concerned with themes of remorse and pain, led critics to place him, perhaps misleadingly, among the 'New Apocalypse' movement. Barker's published works include: 30 Preliminary Poems (1933); Eros in Dogma (1944); News of the World (1950); The True Confession of George Barker (1950); The View From a Blind I (1962); Thurgarton Ch...

Eliot, Valerie.

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Smith, Ronald Gregor

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