Marcella Comès (Winslow) papers

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

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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...

Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was one of the most brilliant practitioners of the art of the short story. Her literary reputation rests on the stories in her Collected Stories (1964) rather than on her best-selling novel Ship of Fools (1962). Born Callie Russell Porter on May 15, 1890, she was the fourth of Harrison and Mary Alice Porter's five children. When her mother died in March 1892, her father moved the four surviving children from his farm in the central Texas community ...

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977

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American poet Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was born in Boston on March 1, 1917, to Robert Traill Spence Lowell III and Charlotte Winslow Lowell, a relation of writers James Russell Lowell and Amy Lowell. In addition to being the descendant of poets, Lowell encountered and was taught by numerous prominent poets during his classicist education. Lowell attended St. Mark's School (1930-1935), where he was influenced by Richard Eberhart, and Harvard University (1935-1937). In 1937, Boston psychiatr...

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979

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Poet Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and had an often difficult childhood in Canada and New England. She wrote poetry in her youth, and developed as a writer at Vassar, where her friends included Mary McCarthy and Marianne Moore. In 1946 she published a book of poetry titled North and South, and travelled to Brazil, where she remained for fifteen years. Her 1956 book of poetry, A Cold Spring, won the Pulitzer Prize; her verse was noted for precision and balance. She also p...

Masson, Leon, 1911-

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Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

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American author. From the description of Typed letter signed : Jackson, Miss., to Charles Ryskamp, Director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875021 The short story writer and novelist Eudora Alice Welty was born on April 13, 1909, in Jackson, Miss. In 1946 she published Delta wedding, her first novel. Her novel The optimist's daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. She was a lecturer and writer-in-residence at numerous colleges....

Shapiro, Karl Jay, 1913-2000

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Poet, editor, and educator. From the description of Karl Jay Shapiro papers, 1947-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979818 Pulitzer-Prize-winning American poet and author of more than forty volumes of poetry and criticism. From the description of Papers. 1941-1967. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 34091314 Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He served in the Second World War in the South Pacific and New Guinea. A volume of ...

Tate, Allen, 1899-

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American poet and author. From the description of Typed letters signed (8) : Monteagle and Clarksville, Tenn. and [n.p.], to Stark Young, 1934 Feb. 20-1942 Dec. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875012 ...

De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956

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Walter De la Mare (1873-1956) was a British poet, novelist, short story writer, critic, essayist, anthologist, dramatist, and a prolific writer of children's poetry and fiction. From the description of Papers of Walter De la Mare, 1923-1956. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122584933 Mégroz was the early biographer of de la Mare. From the description of Letter, c. 1923, to R.L. Mégroz. (Unknown). WorldCat record...

Hodgson, Ralph, 1871-1962

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Ralph Hodgson, British poet who wrote "Song of Honour," "The Bull," "Time, You Old Gypsy Man," and "Eve." Hodgson taught in Japan for fourteen years at Sendai University, then moved to the United States in 1938, settling in Ohio, where he spent the rest of his life with his wife Aurelia Bolliger Hodgson. From the description of Ralph Hodgson papers, 1695-1976 (bulk 1914-1970). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82097276 From the description of Ralph Hodgson papers, 1695-1976 (bu...

Perse, Saint-John

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French diplomat and poet. From the description of Papers of Saint-John Perse, 1956-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015089 French poet. From the description of Autograph letters signed (66), post cards (2) and telegrams (15) : Washington, D.C., to Mina Curtiss, 1951 Jan. 10-1973 Apr. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270634725 ...

Van Doren, Mark, 1894-1972

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Mark Van Doren and his wife, Dorothy Van Doren. From the description of Letters, 1965-1978, to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155877479 Mark Van Doren was an American author, scholar, and educator. He is probably best remembered for his long tenure as Columbia professor, where he was noted for his inspired Humanities courses and respect for students. His poetry was meticulously well-crafted and gr...

Rothenstein, William, 1872-1945

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William Rothenstein was born in 1872 in Bradford. He studied art at the Slade School 1888-9 and in Paris at the Académie Julian from 1889 - 1893. Although he painted landscapes, people and architectural subjects he specialised in portraiture and published several series of lithographs from 1893, completing 800 portraits by 1926. He died in 1945. From the guide to the Study collection of 179 drawings and lithographs by Sir William Rothenstein 1896 - 1942, 1896-1942, (Tate Gallery Arch...

Chapin, Katherine Garrison, 1890-1977

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Poet and author. Mrs. Francis Biddle. From the description of Katherine Garrison Chapin papers, 1930-1972. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 77651764 Poet; wife of Francis Biddle. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, [after 1938]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122583171 Katherine Garrison Chapin Biddle was born on Sept. 4, 1890, in Waterford, Connecticut. She was the daughter of Lindley Hoffman Chapin...

Devlin, Denis, 1908-1959

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Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989

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Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), first poet laureate of the United States, was a poet, writer of fiction, and co-author with Cleanth Brooks of influential textbooks on literature. He won Pulitzer Prizes for All the King's Men (1946) and for volumes of poetry, Promises (1958) and Now and Then (1979). From the description of Robert Penn Warren papers, 1906-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702132948 Robert Penn Warren served on the faculty of Louisiana State University, Dept...

Rothenstein, John, 1901-1992

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Rothenstein (1901-1992) was an English author and Director of the Tate Gallery. Max Beerbohm was an English essayist, caricaturist, and parodist. From the description of Letters from the Beerbohm family and other correspondents, 1905-1957. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82803710 Rothenstein (1901-1992) was an English author and Director of the Tate Gallery. From the guide to the Letters from the Beerbohm family and other correspondents, 1905-1957., (Ho...

Winslow, Marcella Comès

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Artist and portrait painter, of Washington, D.C. From the description of Marcella Comès Winslow collection, 1891-1986. (Historical Society of Washington, Dc). WorldCat record id: 70959022 Portrait painter, photographer; Washington, D.C. b. 1905. d. July 6, 2000. Known also as Marcella Comès and Marcella Rodange Comès. From the description of Marcella Comès (Winslow) interview, 1982 May 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220185310 Marcella...

Gordon, Caroline, 1895-

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Jiménez, Juan Ramón, 1881-1958

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Spanish poet. From the description of Papers of Juan Ramón Jiménez, 1867-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79455586 Biographical Note Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez was born in 1881 in Moguer, Spain. He published his first book of poetry in 1900 with the help of Rubén Darío, the leader of the modernista poetry movement in Spain and influential mentor of Jiménez. During the Spanish Civil War, Jiménez moved first to Cuba and ...

Adams, Leonie, 1899-

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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963

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American poet from New England. Winner of the 1932 Pulitzer Prize. From the description of Letters, 1931-1943. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122464432 American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. From the description of Letter to Mr. Beggen [?], 1928. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 86129842 Robert Frost was an American poet. From the description of Papers concerning the Kenned...

Eberhart, Richard Ghormley, 1904-2005

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Distinguished poet Richard Eberhart was born in Minnesota, and lived an idyllic life until experiencing the twin shocks of family financial crisis and his mother's death; his verse was significantly influenced by these experiences, and he would later cite his mother's death as the moment he became a poet. Eberhart was educated at the University of Minnesota, Dartmouth, Cambridge, and Harvard; he later worked various jobs as a tutor and educator, served in the naval reserve in World War II, and w...

Weygandt, Cornelius, 1871-1957

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Cornelius Weygandt, born December 13, 1871 in Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.), graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1891. He worked as a reporter for the Philadelphia Record, 1892-1893, and for the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, 1893-1897. In 1897 he joined the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania as Instructor. In 1901 Weygandt received his Ph.D. writing his dissertation on the "Tendencies of Contemporary Poetry," and in 1931 Weygandt recieved an Litt.D. His caree...

Winslow, Anne Goodwin

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D'Arcy, Martin Cyril, 1888-1976

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Martin Cyril D’Arcy was born on June 15, 1888 in Bath, England to Martin Valentine and Madoline Mary (Keegan) D’Arcy. He was educated at Stonyhurst College between 1898 and 1906, before he followed his brother Edmund Conyers-D’Arcy into the Jesuit novitiate at Manresa College, Roehampton. In 1912, he went to study at Pope’s Hall, Oxford University, where he won numerous academic prizes, including the Charles Oldham Prize (1915), the John Locke Scholarship (1918), and the Green Moral Philosophy P...