David Wagoner letters to Philip Allison Shelley and papers, 1947-1964.

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David Wagoner letters to Philip Allison Shelley and papers, 1947-1964.

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The collection consists of personal correspondence from David Wagoner to his friend and colleague Philip Allison Shelley, 1947-1964, including five letters, seven poems accompanying the letters, a telegram, a Christmas card, four postcards, a silk screened holiday card by Wagoner's wife, Patt, and a note written on the inside of an unfolded envelope. The letters are friendly, and include personal news and activities. Also includes a concert program from a Lotte Lehman recital, 23 Jan. 1948; a postcard from Poetry magazine announcing two poems by Wagoner in a future issue, 22 June 1949; the typescript and program from a talk given by Wagoner at the Fall luncheon meeting of North Central Pennsylvania Association of Teachers of English, 24 Sept. 1953; a clipping from the Herald Tribune Book Review including a review of Wagoner's novel Money, money, money, 2 Oct. 1955; and a photograph of Wagoner.

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Wagoner, David

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Author David Wagoner was born in Ohio. He received a B.A. from Penn State, where he later taught, and where he came under the charismatic influence of Theodore Roethke. From his position at the University of Washington, Wagoner has created an inconspicuous but remarkable body of work, including novels, stories, and especially poems. A writer's writer, Wagoner remains little-known, but his readable, praiseworthy, and influential body of work is known and admired by his colleagues. Fro...

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...