Office files : of The American Poetry Review, 1975-1997.

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Office files : of The American Poetry Review, 1975-1997.

Comprises 36 items, 36 leaves correspondence plus manuscripts for publication. Contains numerous translations. Includes translations by the following: Diana Der Hovanessian; Vera Dunham; F.D. Reeve; Barbara Howes; Daniel Hoffman; Ted Hughes; George MacBeth; Alan Dixon; Jascha Kessler; Edwin Morgan; Laura Schiff; Leif Sjöberg; Svetlana Kluge; Kim Cushman; Christopher Hewitt; Carolyn Kizer; Petre Solomon; William Jay Smith. Contains translations of poetry by many authors: Andreĭ Voznesenskiĭ; Henry Martinson; Valéry Larbaud; Bella Akhmadulina; Nina Cassian; Alain Bosquet; Sándor Csoóri; István Csukás; Gábor Devecseri; Ágnes Gergely; Anna Hajnal; Gyula Illyés; Márton Kalász; László Nagy; János Pilinszky; Judit Tóth; István Vas; Sándor Weöres; Zoltán Zelk. Also includes translations by Smith of poetry by Johannes Edfelt, Folke Isaksson, Arthur Lundkvist, Lars Lundkvist, Elisabeth Rynell, Östen Sjöstrand, and Kerstin Thorek. Oversize galley in folders 5461-5462.

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Pilinszky, János

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Macbeth, George

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Nagy, László, 1927-

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Hewitt, Christopher

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Hoffman, Daniel, 1923-

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Daniel Hoffman was a poet and a member of the Department of English Literature at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. From the description of Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1965. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 190822116 Daniel Hoffman -- scholar, writer and teacher -- was born in New York and educated at Columbia University, receiving his Ph.D. there in 1956. He pursued a distinguished academic career, producing several scholarly works inc...

Kessler, Jascha Frederick, 1929-

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Kessler was born on Nov. 27, 1929 in New York City, NY; BA, New York Univ., 1950; MA (1951) and Ph. D (1955), Univ. of Michigan; instructor in English, NYU (1954-55) and Hunter College (1955-56); educational research director, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1956-57; asst. professor of English, Hamilton College, 1957-61; asst. professor (1961-64), assoc. professor (1964-70), and in 1970 professor of English, UCLA; director of Institute of Government and Public Affairs research project, "Culture in Lo...

Cushman, Kim.

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Dunham, Vera Sandomirsky, 1912-2001

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Thorek, Kerstin, 1934-

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Morgan, Edwin, 1920-2010

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Edwin Morgan was born in Glasgow in 1920 and brought up in Rutherglen on the outskirts of the city. An unhappy only child of conservative middle-class parents Morgan felt that he had no-one he could talk to about his artistic enthusiasms, although his father gave him a sense of Glasgow's industrial history. In 1937 Morgan began his studies at Glasgow university but the war intervened. At first he registered as a Conscientious Objector but then requested a posting to the Royal Army M...

Cassian, Nina

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Rynell, Elisabeth, 1954-....

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Isaksson, Folke, 1927-....

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Weöres, Sándor, 1913-1989

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Illyés, Gyula, 1902-1983

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Kizer, Carolyn

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Poet Carolyn Kizer has also worked as an educator, translator, critic, and editor. Born and educated in the Pacific Northwest, her career has taken her across the country and around the world. A poet's poet, she has never been prolific, but her poems are admired for their precision and quality. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. From the description of Carolyn Kizer letter to Louis Untermeyer, 1966 July 19. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 54314...

Schiff, Laura

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Kluge, Svetlana.

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Csoóri, Sándor.

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Martinson, Harry, 1904-1978

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Sjöstrand, Östen.

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Bosquet, Alain, 1919-1998

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Kalász, Márton.

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Gergely, Ágnes

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Vas, István.

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Zelk, Zoltán.

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Sjöberg, Leif.

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Smith, William Jay

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Tóth, Judit, 1936-

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Howes, Barbara

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Lundkvist, Arthur.

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Akhmadulina, Bella, 1937-2010

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Devecseri, Gábor

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Edfelt, Johannes, 1904-1997

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Lundkvist, Lars

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Dixon, Alan B.

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