[Perspective archives]. 1947-1980.

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[Perspective archives]. 1947-1980.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12952488

The Archives of Perspective consist of three major groupings. The first is a series of correspondence which includes a large amount of business and general correspondence, as well as two smaller groups of letters from Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams. The second, and largest series is made up of the manuscripts, correspondence and editorial matter for individual issues. The final portion of the archives consists of the magazine's business records. Correspondents include Raymond Carver, Daniel Curley, Charles Edward Eaton, Donald Finkel, John Gardner, Patricia Goedicke, James Hall, George Hitchcock, Phillip Legler, Anthony Ostroff, David Posner, Henry H. Roth and others.

ca. 3600 items (15 boxes) ; 10 x 31 x 38 cm.

Washington University in St. Louis, .

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SNAC Resource ID: 6818920

Washington University in St. Louis, .

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Gardner, John, 1933-1982

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Finkel, Donald L., 1943-....

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Poet-in-residence, Washington University; b. 1927. From the description of Papers, 1947-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28419612 American author. From the description of Papers. 1947-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12905619 ...

Hitchcock, George, active 1691

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Curley, Daniel

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Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; b. 1918; d. 1988. From the description of Papers, 1941-1991. (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign). WorldCat record id: 28422222 ...

Ostroff, Anthony, 1923-

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Anthony Ostroff was an American scholar, educator, critic, and poet. He served in World War II, was educated at several premier universities, and taught poetry and rhetoric, notably at Berkeley. He published poems, fiction, and essays in a variety of journals, as well as several monographs. He was an active member of the ACLU, and worked with several anti-war organizations. From the description of Anthony Ostroff letter to Louis Untermeyer, and poems, 1968 July 29. (Pennsylvania Stat...

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963

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This collection covers the years of William Carlos Williams's medical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, a year of service at a New York City hospital, a semester of medical study in Leipzig, and the period when he was setting up his medical practice and courting his future wife, Florence Herman, in his home town of Rutherford, N.J. During this time, his younger brother Edgar went from engineering and architectural studies at M.I.T. to further study of architecture at the American Academ...

Thurston, Jarvis, 1914-2008

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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955

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Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for the Hartford insurance company in Connecticut. From the guide to the Wallace Stevens collection, 1921-1966, (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library) Wallace Stevens was an American essayist, playwright, and poet. From the description of Wallace Stevens collection of papers, 19...

Legler, Phillip B.

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Eaton, Charles Edward, 1916-2006

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Charles Edward Eaton, poet and professor, was born in Winston- Salem, N.C., received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1936, studied at Princeton, and received his M.A. degree from Harvard, where he worked with Robert Frost who later recommended him to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Eaton served as Vice Consul in Brazil, 1942- 1946, and as professor of creative writing at UNC, 1946-1952. In 1950, he married Isabel Patterson of Pittsburgh. Eaton is a widely published a...

Posner, David Louis

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American poet David Louis Posner was born August 6, 1921, in New York, to Nell and Louis S. Posner. In 1945, Posner received his B.A. from Kenyon College where he majored in French and in 1947 he received his M.A. in English Literature from Harvard. After studying at the Sorbonne, he worked for two years with Radio Diffusion Française interviewing famous personalities. During this time, he traveled extensively in Europe and pursued an interes...

Hall, James, 1917-....

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Van Duyn, Mona

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American author. From the description of Papers. 1942-1985. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12925295 American poet, editor, and teacher of writing at Washington University; b. 1921; married Jarvis Thurston. From the description of Papers, 1942-1985. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28421417 ...

Goedicke, Patricia

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Roth, Henry H.

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Carver, Raymond, 1938-1988

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Raymond Carver May 25, 1938- August 2, 1988. Pacific Northwest writer, author of short stories, novels, poetry, and essays. From the description of Raymond Carver family photographs, 1938-1963 (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 765505805 Author. From the description of Letters, 1969-1970. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 40809247 ...