W.H. Auden letters and miscellany, 1941-1973.

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W.H. Auden letters and miscellany, 1941-1973.

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The collection consists of thirty-seven items: broadside poem, The ballad of Barnaby, c1972, drawings by Edward Gorey; broadside poem River profile, no. 5 of 50, autographed by the author; six (undated) letters from Auden to various people, including Eric Bentley; correspondence between Auden and Philip Allison Shelley; two letters, 25 Apr. 1958 and 8 Jan. 1959, to I.L. Salomon; copies of articles about Auden. Miscellaneous poems and papers, including corrected galley of Homage to Clio, jacket for Stewart's Sense & inconsequence (with foreword by Auden), and material commemorating Auden's visit to Penn State for one week in February, 1941, and in 1971.

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Bentley, Eric, 1916-....

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Eric Russell Bentley (1916- ) was an American editor, translator and professor of dramatic literature at Columbia University. From the description of Eric Bentley papers, ca. 1960-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517495 From the guide to the Eric Bentley papers, ca. 1960-1964, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) Eric Bentley, theater critic and dramatist. From the description of Eric Bentley letters to Mary Douglas Di...

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

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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 ...

Shelley, Philip Allison, 1907-....

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Philip Allison Shelley was born in York, Pennsylvania, on 7 August 1907. He earned degrees from Penn State (1929) and Harvard (M.A., comparative literature, 1930; Ph.D., Germanic philology, 1938). With the aid of an Ottendorfer Memorial Fellowship, he studied at the German universities in Berlin and Goettingen in 1933 and 1934. Philip Allison Shelley became a member of the Penn State faculty in 1939 and headed the German Department from 1942 to 1962. He was named professor of comparative literat...

Gorey, Edward, 1925-2000

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Edward Gorey was born February 22, 1925, in Chicago, Ill, and died April 15, 2000, in Hyannis, Massachusetts. He followed a career as author, illustrator, and designer. His books for children are generally regarded as nonsense fiction, while his writing for adults is more satirical. He is better known, however, for his illustrations....

Salomon, Isidore Lawrence, 1899-1985

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