Thom Gunn manuscripts of poems, 1952-1984.

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Thom Gunn manuscripts of poems, 1952-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/215443275

Includes Carnal Knowledge (holograph draft); In Santa Maria Del Popolo (corrected typescript); and The Wolf Boy (corrected typescript). Also included: brief autobiographical notes.

Originals : 1 portfolio.Copies : 1 microfilm reel : negative (Rich. 615:4) and positive.

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Gunn, Thom

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Thom Gunn was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, in 1929. His first book of poems, "Fighting Terms," was published in 1954, and Gunn was awarded a creative writing fellowship at Stanford University in the same year. From 1958 to 1966 and 1973 to 1990 he taught at the University of California, Berkeley. He received numerous awards during his life, most notably the MacArthur Fellowship for lifetime achievement in poetry in 1993. Gunn passed away in San Francisco, California, in 2004. Fr...