Robert Creeley papers, ca. 1940-1978.

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Robert Creeley papers, ca. 1940-1978.

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Chiefly letters (ca. 1940-1955) from Creeley to Jacob Leed; drafts of Creeley's stories and poems sent to Leed; Creeley's typescripts of poems written by Charles Olson, his associate at Black Mountain College, Vincent Ferrini, and others; and miscellaneous correspondence. Also includes Creeley's correspondence to others (1954-1978).

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University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

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University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

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Leed, Jacob, 1924-

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Olson, Charles, 1910-1970

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Charles Olson, the leading voice of the Black Mountain poets, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and was a notable student at Wesleyan University, where his groundbreaking work on Herman Melville evolved into the highly praised monograph, Call Me Ishmael. Inspired by Franklin Roosevelt, Olson worked his way up through the Democratic Party, but quit after Roosevelt's death, and began a brilliant career as a writer and educator. His manifesto, Projective Verse, influenced a generation of poets ...

Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)

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Black Mountain College was founded in 1933 by a group of nonconformist faculty and students from Rollins College in Florida. Headed by John Andrew Rice, they established their experimental college and community near Black Mountain, NC. Artists and writers from all over the country were attracted to Black Mountain and the college became a nurturing ground for some of the best talents of the twentieth century. Among its faculty and students were Josef Albers, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning...

Creeley, Robert, 1926-2005

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Sponsored by Stanford University, the English Department, the Creative Writing Program, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Library, and the Library Associates. From the description of A symposium on his poetry and his place in American letters : recording, 2005 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864090 David Shaff was at Yale at this time; he wrote and edited poetry. From the description of Letters to David O. Schaff, 1962-1965. (Unknown). WorldC...

Ferrini, Vincent, 1913-2007

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Poet and editor of Four Winds magazine, of Gloucester, Mass. From the description of Vincent Ferrini papers, 1949-1977. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28418093 ...