Letters to Robie Macauley [manuscript], 1946-1948.

Jarrell, Randall, 1914-1965

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Randall Jarrell (6 May 1914 – 14 October 1965), the noted American poet, literary critic, children's author, essayist, and novelist, was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended Vanderbilt University where he studied under Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and John Crowe Ransom, edited the student humor magazine, captained the tennis team, received a Phi Beta Kappa and graduated magna cum laude. After graduating from Vanderbilt, Jarrell served as a teaching instructor at Kenyon College, Gambier, ...

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977

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American poet Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was born in Boston on March 1, 1917, to Robert Traill Spence Lowell III and Charlotte Winslow Lowell, a relation of writers James Russell Lowell and Amy Lowell. In addition to being the descendant of poets, Lowell encountered and was taught by numerous prominent poets during his classicist education. Lowell attended St. Mark's School (1930-1935), where he was influenced by Richard Eberhart, and Harvard University (1935-1937). In 1937, Boston psychiatr...

Eaton, Charles Edward, 1916-2006

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Charles Edward Eaton, poet and professor, was born in Winston- Salem, N.C., received his B.A. degree from the University of North Carolina in 1936, studied at Princeton, and received his M.A. degree from Harvard, where he worked with Robert Frost who later recommended him to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Eaton served as Vice Consul in Brazil, 1942- 1946, and as professor of creative writing at UNC, 1946-1952. In 1950, he married Isabel Patterson of Pittsburgh. Eaton is a widely published a...

Palmer, John Roger, 1945-

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Waller, James, 1819-1871

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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...

Jarrell, Mackie Langham.

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Macauley, Robie.

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Robie Mayhew Macauley (1919-1995) was educated at Kenyon College, Iowa State University and the University of London. During and after World War II he served as an agent for the Counter-intelligence Corps in Europe and Japan. Some of the material for his short stories was based on his experience in intelligence work. Macauley taught at Bard College and the University of Iowa before coming to the Woman's College (UNCG) in 1950. In August 1953 he resigned from his teaching position, moving on to e...

Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994

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Peter Hillsman Taylor was a prize-winning American author, known for his stylish novels and short stories of the American South. Born in Tennessee, Taylor's family travelled throughout the South during his youth, and he credits these experiences with inspiring his later writing. He enrolled at Rhodes College, where Allen Tate urged him to transfer to Vanderbilt to study under John Crowe Ransom; he later followed Ransom to Kenyon College, along with Robert Lowell and Randall Jarrell. He garnered ...

Harrigan, Anthony H.

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Charleston, South Carolina author. At one time Harrigan (1925- ) was an editor for "The News and Courier" (newspaper : Charleston, S.C.), and later became President of the United States Industrial Council. From the description of The river in the heart, 1950. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32139810 Anthony Hart Harrigan Jr. (b. 1925), a conservative writer and lecturer, was associate editor of the Charleston, South Carolina "News an...

O'Donnell, George Marion,

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American poet. From the description of Papers of George Marion O'Donnell pertaining to William Faulkner, [manuscript], 1935. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833542 ...

Arts Forum of the Women's College of the University of North Carolina.

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Taylor, Eleanor Ross, 1920-2011

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Eleanor Ross Taylor was born in North Carolina in 1920. She graduated from the Woman's College (UNCG) in 1940, and married writer Peter Taylor in 1943. Her first book of poetry, Wilderness of ladies (New York, McDowell) was published in 1960 and includes an introduction by Randall Jarrell. Her second volume of poems, Welcome Eumenides, appeared in 1972 (pub. Braziller); New and selected poems followed in 1983 (Winston-Salem, N.C., Stuart Wright). From the description of Welcome Eumen...

Lilly family.

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Lilly Mall (Norwood, N.C.)

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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...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974

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American poet and educator. From the description of Letter to Mrs. F.E. Lund [manuscript], 1968 February 12. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833566 John Crowe Ransom, noted poet, critic, educator and editor, was born April 30, 1888 in Pulaski, Tennessee. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1909, was a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, 1910-1913, and joined the faculty of Vanderbilt in 1914, where he taught English until 1937. While at Vanderbil...

Rosenfeld, Isaac, 1918-1956

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Isaac Louis Rosenfeld, (b. March 10, 1918, d. July 15, 1956), was a Chicago-born writer, critic, and university professor. Rosenfeld's only published novel, Passage from Home, echoes his upbringing in a lower-middle class Jewish household on the West Side of Chicago. Following his mother's death during the 1918 flu epidemic, Rosenfeld was largely raised by his stepmother and aunts, Dora and Rae. A sickly but precocious child, Rosenfeld demonstrated a keen intellect and verbal talent...

Hecht, Roger, 1926-

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