Papers of George Garrett [manuscript], 1989-1990.

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Papers of George Garrett [manuscript], 1989-1990.

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The papers include a program and cassette tape, October 22, 1989, of a vesper service at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New York, at which William Faulkner and Wallace Stevens were inducted into the American Poets' Corner. The service included selections from Faulkner read by Garrett, and Alfred Kazin and selections from Stevens read by Amy Clampitt and John Ashbery. With these are a cassette tape of the program "Writers talking" presented in Alderman Library in which authors Garrett, Mary Lee Settle, John Casey, Henry Taylor and Jeanne Larsen discussed their work together with a brief note from Garrett to Joan Crane about the event.

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