V. R. Lang additional papers, 1947-1956.

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V. R. Lang additional papers, 1947-1956.

Includes correspondence, drawings, holograph manuscripts, photographs, and printed materials about Lang. Correspondents include: John Ciardi, Gorham Bert Munson, New Directions Publishing Corp., Henry Rago, Karl Jay Shapiro, and others.

2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7794765

Houghton Library

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Lang, V. R., 1924-1956

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Violet Ranney Lang was an American poet, playwright, actress, and a founder of the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. From the description of V. R. Lang papers, 1929-1974 (inclusive) 1943-1959 (bulk). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612367343 From the description of V. R. Lang additional papers, 1947-1956. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612199157 Lang was an American poet, playwright, actress, and a founder of the Poets' Theatre in Cambridge,...

New Directions Publishing Corp.

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James Laughlin (1914-1997) began his publishing career as the literary editor of New Democracy, a magazine devoted to the economic theory Social Credit. Here Laughlin published Modern writers such as Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams in a section of the magazine entitled "New Directions." In 1936, while in his Junior year at Harvard University, Laughlin gathered the best of these pieces and put them together in the first annual anthology, New Directions in Prose and Poetry....

Rago, Henry, 1915-1969

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Poet and editor, Henry Anthony Rago was born on October 5, 1915, in Chicago, IL and in 1937 he graduated from DePaul University with a bachelors of law degree; two years later earned a degree in literature from the same school. During World War II, Rago served in the U.S. Army, becoming a first lieutenant and receiving a Bronze Star for his duties. Following the war, he returned to academia where, in 1941 he obtained his Ph.D. from Notre Dame University, graduating magna cum laude. ...

Munson, Gorham Bert, 1896-1969

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Gorham Munson was associated with New Democracy. He and Carl Zigrosser shared interests in A. R. Orage, progressive education and new economic theory, particularly the Social Credit Movement. From the description of Correspondence with Carl Zigrosser, 1919-1942. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213466243 ...

Ciardi, John, 1916-1986

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American poet and critic. Winner of Avery and Jule Hopwood Award in poetry, 1939. Professor of English at Harvard, 1946-48, and Rutgers, 1953-61. From the description of Letter, 1980 Feb. 4, Key West, Fla., to Henry F. Pommer, Ripon, Wis. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34364896 Poet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Full name: John Anthony Ciardi. From the description of John Ciardi papers, 1910-1997 (bulk 1960-1985). (Unknown). W...

Shapiro, Karl Jay, 1913-2000

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Poet, editor, and educator. From the description of Karl Jay Shapiro papers, 1947-1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979818 Pulitzer-Prize-winning American poet and author of more than forty volumes of poetry and criticism. From the description of Papers. 1941-1967. (University of Maryland Libraries). WorldCat record id: 34091314 Karl Jay Shapiro was an American poet. He served in the Second World War in the South Pacific and New Guinea. A volume of ...