Robert Huff papers, 1948-1985.

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Robert Huff papers, 1948-1985.

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The Robert Huff Collection primarily contains correspondence from various American poets to Huff. The greatest number of letters is from e.e. cummings, who frequently wrote to Huff from 1948 until his death in 1962. Other correspondents include Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams, Bernard Malamud and Karl Shapiro. The collection also contains over twenty-five typescripts of poems and a number of reviews and newspaper articles written about Huff.

1 box (.33 cubic ft.).

UNH Durham, Dimond Library

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UNH Durham, Dimond Library

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Huff, Robert, 1924-1993.

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Born in 1924, Robert Huff was educated at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. He taught English at several universities in the western U.S. before taking a position at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA., from where he retired in 1989. Huff's first book of poetry, COLONEL JOHNSON'S RIDE, appeared in 1959, after which he published four other collections of poetry: THE COURSE (1966); THE VENTRILOQUIST (1977); SHORE GUIDE TO FLOCKING BIRDS (1985), and AMY (1986). He was a Brea...

Cummings, E.E. (Edward Estlin), 1894-1962

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E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1894. While at Harvard, he delivered a daring commencement address on modernist artistic innovations, thus announcing the direction his own work would take. In 1917, after working briefly for a mail-order publishing company, the only regular employment in his career, Cummings volunteered to serve in the Norton-Harjes Ambulance group in France. Here he and a friend were imprisoned (on false grounds) for three months in a Frenc...