Papers, 1951-1971.

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Papers, 1951-1971.

Extensive correspondence with literary figures, little magazine editors, small press publishers, family members, and friends; Sward's heavily revised worksheets, notebooks, and other ms. material; and large collection of little magazines, small press publications, and literary ephemera. Correspondents include George Abbe, A.R. Ammons, Jonathan Baumback, Martin C.O. Bax, Marvin Bell, Carol Bergé, Paul Blackburn, Robert Elwood Bly, Louise Bogan, Michael Dennis Browne, Paul Carroll, John Ciardi, Fred Cogswell, Robert David Cohen, Robert Creeley, Ray DiPalma, William Dickey, Frederick Eckman, Paul Engle, Donald Finkel, Donald Hall, George Hitchcock, Anselm Hollo, David Ignatow, Judson Jerome, Diane Johnson, Donald Justice, Steve Katz, X.J. Kennedy, Jascha Kessler, Robert Kroetsch, Larry Lieberman, John Logan, Alison Lurie, William Meredith, Howard Moss, Charles Newman, Ron Offen, Toby Olson, Ann Quin, Margaret Randall, David Ray, David Rubin, May Sarton, James Schevill, William Edgar Stafford, George Starbuck, Lucien Stryk, Charles Tomlinson, Constance Urdang, Mona Van Duyn, Theodore Russell Weiss, Reed Whittemore, and Keith Wilson.

ca. 13,000 items.

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Washington University in St. Louis, .

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Browne, Michael Dennis

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Michael Dennis Browne was born in Walton-on Thames, England. He received his B.A. with first-class honors in 1962 from Hull University, and his M.A. from the University of Iowa. Browne became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1978, and has been teaching since 1971 at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, where he is a Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of English. He is the author of seven collections of poetry. From the description of Michael Dennis Brow...

Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970

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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...

Eckman, Frederick, 1924-1996

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American author, member of the faculty in the English Department at Bowling Green State University, where he was a co-founder (in 1968) of the Creative Writing Program with Philip O'Connor. In 1966 his son Thomas was one of those killed by a sniper in the University Tower at the University of Texas-Austin. From the description of Papers 1947-1998. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 355507724 ...

Sward, Robert, 1933-

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Robert Sward was born in Chicago. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Illinois and an M.A. from the University of Iowa. He was appointed Visiting Poet in the University of Victoria Department of Creative Writing in 1969, and also taught in the University of Victoria Department of English. Sward's publications include "Poems: New and Selected, 1957-1976", and the novel "Jurassic Shales" (1975). In 1970 he founded the Soft Press publishing company in Victoria. In the early 1970s Sward and Ro...

Cogswell, Fred, 1917-2004

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Blackburn, Paul (Paul Richard)

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American poet associated with the projective verse movement. From the description of Paul Blackburn letters, 1949. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 42721935 American poet. From the description of Affinities I : typescript, [ca. 1957]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 32416027 From the description of The lottery : annotated typescript, [ca. 1956] / PB. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat reco...

Finkel, Donald L., 1943-....

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Poet-in-residence, Washington University; b. 1927. From the description of Papers, 1947-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28419612 American author. From the description of Papers. 1947-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12905619 ...

Bergé, Carol, 1928-2006

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American author. From the description of Papers. 1970-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 12926111 American author and poet. From the description of Papers, 1970-1983. (Washington University in St. Louis). WorldCat record id: 28419455 Carol Bergé was born in New York in 1955. She is the author of numerous pieces of prose. Her volumes of poetry include Secrets, gossip and slander (1984), From a soft angle: poems about women (1...

Ignatow, David, 1914-1997

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David Ignatow (1914- ), American poet and author of numerous books of poems. From the description of David Ignatow collection. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79463214 David Ignatow -- poet, editor, free-lance writer and teacher -- was born in New York and pursued formal education to the high school level. He published his first volume of poems in 1948 and since then has produced more than 15 volumes of poetry. Ignatow has also served as editor of sev...

Dipalma, Ray

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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...

Bell, Marvin, 1937-....

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Ammons, A. R., 1926-2001

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Poet and university professor Archie Randolph Ammons was born near Whiteville, N.C., in 1926. He earned a reputation as one of the nation's leading poets in the decades after he joined the Cornell University faculty in 1963, becoming Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry a decade later. Recipient of the Bollingen Prize and the National Book Award and Critics Circle Award for poetry, Ammons was one of the first recipients of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1981. From the description ...

Hitchcock, George, active 1691

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Baumbach, Jonathan

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American author, teacher, and critic; b. 1933. From the description of Jonathan Baumbach collection, 1956-1984. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70967631 ...

Hall, Donald, 1928-....

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Hall is an American poet, essayist, and teacher. From the description of Compositions 1962. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122609338 From the description of Papers, 1956-1965. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122357326 From the guide to the Donald Hall papers, 1956-1965., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) From the guide to the Compositions, 1962., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard Universit...

Engle, Paul, 1908-1991

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Bly, Robert W.

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American poet. From the description of The man in the black coat turns, 1981 [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647823162 Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement. John Gill published a small literary journal in the 1960s entitled New American and Canadian Poetry. He also authored books of poetry, as well as published books of poetry of others under the name of New Books be...

Hollo, Anselm.

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Carroll, Paul, 1957-....

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Bax, Martin.

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Dickey, William

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Dickey was a poet and professor of English and creative writing at San Francisco State University. From the description of William Dickey poems, 1981-1995. (San Francisco Public Library). WorldCat record id: 49774693 ...

Ciardi, John, 1916-1986

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American poet and critic. Winner of Avery and Jule Hopwood Award in poetry, 1939. Professor of English at Harvard, 1946-48, and Rutgers, 1953-61. From the description of Letter, 1980 Feb. 4, Key West, Fla., to Henry F. Pommer, Ripon, Wis. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364896 Poet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Full name: John Anthony Ciardi. From the description of John Ciardi papers, 1910-1997 (bulk 1960-1985). (Unknown). W...

Cohen, Robert David, 1945-

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Abbe, George, 1911-1989

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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...