John B. Ransom, III Collection.

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John B. Ransom, III Collection.

A small archive of correspondence, dated between 1937 and 1979, to John B. Ransom III from C.S. Lewis, Francis Robinson, Jean Stafford (Mrs. Robert Lowell), Wallace Stegner, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and Nancy Tate Wood (one letter on the death of her father, Allen Tate). A letter to Marie H. Ransom from Donald Davidson, concerning John B. Ransom's poems, is also included. Some of his poems are included with the letter.

.21 linear ft.

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Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963

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Epithet: writer and scholar British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x000021 C. S. Lewis was an Oxford professor, a Christian apologist, and a novelist, essayist and critic. From the description of C.S. Lewis collection. [1939]. (University of Victoria Libraries). WorldCat record id: 667850821 One of Britain's foremost literary and philosophical scholars, C. S. Lewis was Professor of Medieva...

Ransom, John B. (John Bostick), 1920-2000

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John B. Ransom, III was born Sept. 12, 1920, in Nashville, Tenn. He graduated from Wallace University School and attended Vanderbilt University from 1938 to 1940. He then transferred to the University of the South, earning a bachelor's degree in 1942. After serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, he earned a master's degree in American literature at Stanford University, writing a dissertation on the fiction of Robert Penn Warren. He then attended Oxford University and the Sorbonne before servi...

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...

Robinson, Francis, 1910-1980

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Public relations staff, Metropolitan Opera. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Sept. 7, 1978 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862075 ...

Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979

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Jean Stafford was an American author, best known for her realistic and sublimely crafted short stories. Much of her fiction invoked classical literary themes, but viewed them through the perspective of an alienated, 20th century woman. Many of her stories reflected her own tumultuous, often melodramatic personal life. From the description of Jean Stafford correspondence with Henry W. Johnstone, 1969. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 55081876 Jea...

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 ...

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...

Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993.

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Recorded in Stegner's home. From the description of Interview by John Milton : cassette audio tape, June 20, 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122398049 Robert Pepper taught in the English Department at San Jose State University. From the description of Typed letter signed to Robert D. Pepper, 1982 Apr. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83291245 Mormon school teacher and author. From the description of Letter, 1979. (Unknown). WorldCat re...