Cleanth Brooks papers, 1949-1991.

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Cleanth Brooks papers, 1949-1991.

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Papers I consist of twelve letters from Brooks to writer George Core, dated 1972-1977. The letters refer primarily to writing projects of both men. Also included is the text of a radio interview with Brooks that was broadcast from Yale University in 1949, and two essays by Brooks. Papers II are composed of twenty-one letters, written from 1963-1991, by Brooks to Walter Laurence Sullivan, a novelist, fringe agrarian, and teacher at Vanderbilt University. These letters describe Brooks's involvement in literary symposia, his Faulkner project, etc. Papers III includes eleven letters, 1981-1985, from Brooks and his wife to publisher and writer Stuart Wright while the latter was at the Palaemon Press. The letters involve both literary and personal matters. Among the correspondence are an original typescript and a proof of a tribute, published by the press, that Brooks wrote for Eudora Welty.

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University of Toledo, William S. Carlson Library

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University of Toledo, William S. Carlson Library

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Core, George, 1939-

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George Core, born in 1939, is an American historian, literary critic, and editor, best known as the editor of The Sewanee Review, 1973 to 2016. He succeeded Andrew Lytle who had succeeded Allen Tate as editor of The Sewanee Review. Previously he taught history at Sewanee University and served as an editor of the University of Georgia Press. Core has written or edited a number of books, primarily relating to the literature of the American South, including Southern Fiction Today, The Southern Trad...

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...

Faulkner, William, 1897-1962

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American fiction writer. From the description of Papers of William Faulkner [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809728 From the description of Jacket, [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647811922 From the description of Uncorrected galley proof of The Faulkner reader [manuscript], 1954 April 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647809700 From the description of Photograph, 1962 Mar. 2...

Sullivan, Walter, 1924-2006

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Walter Sullivan, a native of Nashville, Tenn., graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1947 and was a professor of English for 51 years at Vanderbilt. He authored numerous articles, books and short stories. From the description of Walter Sullivan Collection, 1928-1993. (Vanderbilt University Library). WorldCat record id: 53980673 ...

Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001

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American author. From the description of Typed letter signed : Jackson, Miss., to Charles Ryskamp, Director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1985 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270875021 The short story writer and novelist Eudora Alice Welty was born on April 13, 1909, in Jackson, Miss. In 1946 she published Delta wedding, her first novel. Her novel The optimist's daughter won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969. She was a lecturer and writer-in-residence at numerous colleges....

Wright, Stuart Thurman, 1948-

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Stuart Wright was the owner and publisher of Palaemon Press Limited, a private press that published books, pamphlets and broadsides by Southern authors. He was a bibliographer and collector of Southern literature.Stuart Wright was born 30 March 1948. He attended Roxboro (N.C.) High School and Wake Forest University, graduating from the latter in 1970 with B.A. degrees in German and music. After attending the London School of Chiropody/Smae Institute in England, he returned to Wake Forest in 1972...

Brooks, Cleanth, 1906-1994

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American scholar and writer; professor of English at Louisiana State University and Yale University. From the description of Cleanth Brooks letter, 1984 Dec. 21. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 243464696 Louisiana State University English professor, and co-founder of Southern Review, a literary journal. From the description of Cleanth Brooks oral history interview, 1992. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244443354 Cleant...