Records, 1952-1956.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997

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James Laughlin was an American publisher and poet, and founder of the New Directions press. The son of a steel manufacturer, Laughlin attended Choate School in Connecticut and Harvard University (B.A., 1939). In the mid-1930s Laughlin lived in Italy with Ezra Pound, a major influence on his life and work; returning to the United States, he founded New Directions in 1936. Initially he intended to publish writings by ignored yet influential avant-garde writers of the period; Pound’s The Cantos ...

Roditi, Edouard.

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Edouard Roditi was born in Paris, June 6, 1910; he was educated in England at Elstree, Charterhouse, and Balliol, and received a BA from the Univ. of Chicago; he became acquainted with T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, André Breton and other leading literary figures, while living in London, Paris, and Berlin (1929-37); he published the first Surrealist manifesto in English, "The new reality", in the Oxford outlook (1929); while continuing his literary interests, he worked for the US government during WW...

Indiana Southern Languages Book Trust.

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Schwartz, Delmore, 1913-1966

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Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966), writer, editor, and teacher. In 1937, shortly after graduating from New York University, Schwartz published an acclaimed short story, "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" in the first issue of Partisan Review. In addition to his writing, he served as poetry editor of the Partisan Review and later the New Republic. Schwartz wrote poetry, short stories and essays, criticism, and plays throughout his life but he never established himself as the writer that early praise s...

Intercultural Publications, Inc.

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Multilingual publishing project that was a subsidiary of the Ford Foundation, headed by New Directions publisher, James Laughlin. Personnel connected with the project included poets Hayden Carruth as projects administrator, 1952-1953, and part-time administrator in 1954; Edouard Roditi, as supervisor of translators, translations editor for Perspectives, U.S.A., and later as a free-lance contributor; and Delmore Schwartz, as an editor and contributor. From the description of Records, ...

Carruth, Hayden, 1921-2008

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Hayden Carruth (1921-2008) was a poet, professor, and a editor. He lived in Johnson, Vermont, during the time of the correspondence. For more information, see the Poetry Foundation biography . From the guide to the Hayden Carruth Letters, 1973-1975, (Special Collections, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.) ...