Papers, 1924-1984.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1924-1984.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28421411

Extensive incoming correspondence including letters from literary figures dating back to the 1940s with a substantial group of letters from Russian, Hungarian, and other Eastern European authors; letters from publishers, editors, scholars, and friends; mss. and editorial matter for all of Smith's published work; mss. by other authors; miscellaneous material relating to specific writing projects, academic work, literary award panels, and travel; and family and personal papers. Correspondents include George Abbe, Harold Acton, Léonie Adams, Lee Anderson, Dore Ashton, W.H. Auden, Jacques Barzun, Elizabeth Bishop, Thorkild Bjørnvig, Louise Bogan, Witter Bynner, Erskine Caldwell, John Ciardi, Cid Corman, Malcolm Cowley, James Gould Cozzens, Hubert Creekmore, J.V. Cunningham, Babette Deutsch, Richard Eberhart, Paul Engle, Isabella Gardner, George Garrett, Donald Hall, Robert Hayden, Daniel Hoffman, John Holmes, Edwin Honig, Barbara Howes, Gyula Illyés, Josephine Jacobsen, László Kéry, Howard Nemerov, Katherine Ann Porter, Peter Russell, Leif Sjöberg, Stephen Spender, Enid Starkie, Allen Tate, William Troy, Louis Untermeyer, Miklós Vajda, István Vas, Andrei Voznesensky, Derek Walcott, Eudora Welty, Reed Whittemore, Richard Wilbur, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

ca. 3000 items.

Washington University in St. Louis, .

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7260577

Washington University in St. Louis, .

Related Entities

There are 13 Entities related to this resource.

Ashton, Dore, 1928-2017

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rg6kq6 (person)

Dore Ashton (May 21, 1928 – January 30, 2017) was a writer, professor and critic on modern and contemporary art. She was born in Newark, New Jersey. She was the author or editor of more than thirty books on art, including Noguchi East and West, About Rothko, American Art Since 1945, The New York School: A Cultural Reckoning and Picasso On Art. Ashton also contributed to many publications, including Art Digest. and worked as an art critic at The New York Times. Ashton was one of the New York art ...

Acton, Harold, 1904-1994

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65r5m9b (person)

Harold Acton was a British writer and scholar. His works include The Last Medici (1932), The Bourbons of Naples, 1734-1825 (1956), and two memoirs, Memoirs of an Aesthete (1948) and More Memoirs of an Aesthete (1970). Acton lived in China from 1933 to 1939, during which time he supported himself by teaching English Literature and collaborated with others to translate various Chinese literary works. His translations include Glue and Lacquer: Four Cautionary Tales (1941) and ...

Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w19x2q (person)

Born in France on November 30, 1907, critic-historian Jacques Barzun came to the United States in 1920 and received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He taught at Columbia until his retirement in 1975, having also for a decade been Dean of Faculties and Provost. From 1975 to 1993 he was Literary Adviser to Charles Scribner's Sons. Among his forty books are biographical-critical studies of William James and Hector Berlioz, several volumes of literary and cultu...

Smith, William Jay, 1918-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65q4w4p (person)

American author and Washington University alumnus. From the description of Papers. 1924-1985. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12959285 Poet and Library of Congress poetry consultant (1968-1970). From the description of Two lockets : manuscript poem, 1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984138 American poet. From the description of Papers of William Jay Smith [manuscript], 1957. (University of Virginia). WorldCat re...

Adams, Léonie 1899-1988

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6223974 (person)

Léonie Adams, poet, teacher, and editor. Adams published five books of poetry during her life and received the Bollingen Prize for Poems: A Selection in 1954. Adams's teaching posts included New York University and Columbia University. She married William Troy in 1933. William Troy, writer, editor, and teacher. Troy's writings include essays, literary and film reviews, and poems. His teaching posts included New York University, Bennington College and New School Universi...

Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61n84nw (person)

Poet Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, and had an often difficult childhood in Canada and New England. She wrote poetry in her youth, and developed as a writer at Vassar, where her friends included Mary McCarthy and Marianne Moore. In 1946 she published a book of poetry titled North and South, and travelled to Brazil, where she remained for fifteen years. Her 1956 book of poetry, A Cold Spring, won the Pulitzer Prize; her verse was noted for precision and balance. She also p...

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p55kjv (person)

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973), poet, was born in York, England, on February 21, 1907. He attended Christ Church, Oxford, from 1925-1928, then served as a schoolmaster in various institutions in England and Scotland from 1930 to 1935, including The Downs School in Colwell. In 1935 Auden married Erika Mann, a writer and the daughter of Thomas Mann, so that she could gain British Citizenship and escape Nazi Germany. Although the two never lived together, they remained married until Mann's death in ...

Abbe, George, 1911-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p84g3f (person)

Poet and novelist, George Abbe was born in Connecticut in 1911, has published several novels and volumes of poety, and taught English at a number of New England institutions. Voices in the Square was his first published novel. Abbe died on March 15, 1989. From the description of Papers of George Abbe. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 228415637 American author; b. George Bancroft Abbe; d. 1989. From the description of George Abbe collection, 191...

Bjørnvig, Thorkild

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6380pjz (person)

Smith family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61s5x78 (family)

Bynner, Witter, 1881-1968

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zk5gc0 (person)

American poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Berkeley, California, to Frank Deering, 1919 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270131470 Poet. Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 1881; graduated from Harvard University. Began writing poetry full-time in 1908. Moved to Santa Fe where he died in 1968. From the description of Witter Bynner papers, 1917-1943. (University of New Mexico-Main Campus). WorldCat record id: 35920677 American poet and sc...

Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n276n (person)

Louise Bogan was an American poet, critic, and teacher; she was poetry editor of The New Yorker for many years. From the description of Papers, 1930-1990 (inclusive), 1930-1970 (bulk). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122615911 Louise Bogan was born on August 11, 1897 in Livermore Falls, Maine. She was raised in Milton, New Hampshire and Ballardvale, Massachusetts and lived most of her adult life in New York City. She was educated at Boston Girls' Latin School beginning in 191...

Anderson, Lee, 1896-1972

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sr2dr4 (person)

American author and poet who was a pioneer in audiotaping contemporary poets reading their work. From the description of Papers, 1933-1976 (inclusive), 1948-1972 (bulk). (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 122648055 American poet; owner of Leander Associates, Inc., involved with audiotaping American poetry; b. in Saxton, Pa.; spent many years as printer and farmer in Western Pennsylvania before becoming a poet; taught at Yale and other universities; muc...