Papers, 1920-1995.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1920-1995.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84670178

Collection consists primarily of professional correspondence of Harry Levin with his colleagues, especially with members of the Harvard University community, and of compositions by Harry Levin. The compositions often went through several drafts and include autograph revisions in Levin's hand. The papers also include: correspondence of others, including his wife, Elena Levin, and his secretary, Betty Anne Farmer; compositions by others such as James T. (James Thomas) Farrell, James Laughlin, Robert Penn Warren, and many others; biographical materials, including photographs and Levin's resumes; reference materials on James Joyce; and a letters of recommendations series that is restricted.

29 boxes (37 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8325801

Houghton Library

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68x467r (person)

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 ...

Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ns0rxv (person)

James T. Farrell (1904-1979) was an Irish-American novelist, short story writer, journalist, travel writer, poet, and literary critic. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, he attended the University of Chicago and published his first short story in 1929. He is best known for his Studs Lonigan trilogy and for his A note on Literary Criticism, in which he described two types of the American Marxist character. From the guide to the James T. Farrell Collection, 1953-1961, (Special Colle...

Joyce, James, 1882-1941

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69d7mg4 (person)

James Augustus Aloysius Joyce was born on February 2, 1882, in Rathgar, a borough of Dublin, Ireland, the eldest of ten children who survived infancy. In 1888 he was enrolled at Clongowes Wood College, a Jesuit boarding school near Dublin, where he stayed until 1891. Thereafter he attended Belvedere College, and then University College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1902 with a major in Italian. While at UCD Joyce wrote a paper in defense of Henrik Ibsen's drama called Drama and Life, which was ...

Farmer, Betty Anne.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69w24cx (person)

Levin, Elena

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6544b1v (person)

Levin, Harry, 1912-1994

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6qc0t3d (person)

Correspondence to Lewis and Sophia Mumford from Harry Levin and his wife, Elena Ivanovna Zarudnava Levin. From the description of Letters, 1973, n.d., to Lewis and Sophia Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155871479 Harry Levin was an American literary critic, author, and a professor of comparative literature at Harvard University. From the description of Papers, 1920-1995. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 84670178 ...

Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61n80n7 (person)

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...