Papers, 1915-1977.

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Papers, 1915-1977.

Literary correspondence and manuscripts of poet and businessman Jesse Ely Wills. Prominent correspondents include Frances Neel Cheney, Alfred Leland Crabb, Donald Davidson, William Yandell Elliott, Caroline Gordon, Sidney Mttron Hirsch, Andrew Lytle, Merrill Moore, John Crowe Ransom, Alec Brock Stevenson, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, Thomas Daniel Young. Also contains records of Wills' committee work for Vanderbilt University Board of Trust and Joint University Board of Library Trustees.

2.1 linear ft. (6 Hollinger boxes)

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Moore, Merrill, 1903-1957

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Psychiatrist and poet. From the description of Papers of Merrill Moore, 1904-1979 (bulk 1928-1957). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131204 Poet and psychiatrist. From the description of Letters of Merrill Moore [manuscript], 1938-1948. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647813332 Biographical Note 1903, Sept. 11 Born, Columbia, Tenn. ...

Crabb, Alfred Leland, 1884-1979

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Vanderbilt University. Library

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Young, Thomas Daniel, 1919-....

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Davidson, Donald, 1893-1968

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Author, poet, teacher, and editor. Member of the Fugitive and Agrarian Groups. From the description of Donald Davidson Papers, 1917-1968. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 17789409 ...

Stevenson, Alec Brock, 1895-

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Elliott, William Yandell, 1896-1979

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American political scientist; staff director, House Select Committee on Foreign Affairs, 1947-1949; member, planning board, National Security Council, 1953-1957; consultant to the secretary of state, 1958-1970. From the description of William Yandell Elliott papers, 1925-1974. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870857 Elliott graduated from Harvard in 1918 and taught government and history at Harvard. From the description of Papers of William Yandell Elliott, 1935...

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...

Fugitives (Group)

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Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974

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American poet and educator. From the description of Letter to Mrs. F.E. Lund [manuscript], 1968 February 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833566 John Crowe Ransom, noted poet, critic, educator and editor, was born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909, was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, 1910-1913, and joined the faculty of Vanderbilt in 1914, where he taught English until 1937. While at Vanderbil...

Tate, Allen, 1899-1979

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Allen Tate was an American poet, essayist, literary critic, novelist, and translator. From the description of Allen Tate collection of papers, 1935-1971. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652060 From the guide to the Allen Tate collection of papers, 1935-1971, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) John Orley Allen Tate was born in Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky, in 1899. He atte...

Old Oak Club.

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Cheney, Frances Neel, 1906-1996

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Gordon, Caroline, 1895-1981

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Not certain if the author is Caroline Gordon, 1895-1981. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to [Richard M. Ludwig?], 1969 Dec. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270856877 Caroline Ferguson Gordon, born October 6, 1895, grew up on a farm in Kentucky. In 1925 she married Allen Tate, a poet and literary critic who led the charge of the Southern Agrarian literary movement. Together they pursued their careers in writing, forging close bonds with legendary ...

Hirsch, Sidney M. (Sidney Mttron)

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Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995

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Andrew Nelson Lytle (Dec. 26, 1902-Dec. 12, 1995) was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and graduated from Vanderbilt University. He was a novelist, dramatist, essayist, and professor of literature. As a member of the Agrarians, he contributed a chapter to that group's manifesto, I'll take my stand. He taught at the University of the South and edited the Sewanee review. Among his greatest works are Bedford Forrest and his Critter Company, a biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest; The velvet horn, a ...

Coffee House.

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Wills, Jesse

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Jesse Ely Wills, 1899-1977, a Nashville native, was a member of the group of poets who met in Nashville in the early 1920's to write and publish the influential literary magazine The Fugitive. He was an officer and executive of the National Life and Accident Insurance company during his business career and was active in Vanderbilt University affairs as a member of the Board of Trust and chairman of the Board of the Joint University Libraries. From the description of Papers, 1915-1977...