William Meredith papers relating to Robert Lowell, 1949-1969.

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William Meredith papers relating to Robert Lowell, 1949-1969.

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The collection consists of seventeen items: letter from Lowell to William Meredith, 4 May 1969, thanking him for a review of his work; seven letters among William Meredith, Walter Clemons, and Robert Giroux, 1969, preparing for Meredith's review of Lowell's Notebooks; Meredith's notes for the review; typed proof of the review, with handwritten corrections; two copies of the review, with minor corrections; a print copy of the review, extracted from the New York Times Book Review, 15 June, 1969, pp. 1, 27; notice of a reading of three of Lowell's poems by Meredith, 27 May, no year, including the poems The River God, Stalin, and Reading Myself. Also, photocopy of original typescript of Notebook of a Year, 1967-1968; galley and uncorrected page proofs for Notebook 1967-1968, with handwritten corrections; Winter 1949 copy of Politics, with an article on intellectuals mentioning Lowell.

0.24 cubic feet.

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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...

Giroux, Robert

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Writer, editor, publisher, most notably for 40 years as a partner in the the firm of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Native of New Jersey, graduated with honors from Columbia University in 1936. Author of three books: The Education of an editor : the Bowker lectures for 1981; The Book known as Q : a study of Shakespeare's sonnets (1982); and A Deed of death : the story of an unsolved Hollywood murder (1990). Edited or wrote introductions for The Collected prose of Elizabeth B...

Meredith, William, 1919-2007

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Epithet: Organist of New College, Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000304.0x0002bd William Meredith was an American poet, literary critic, librettist, and translator. From the description of William Meredith collection of papers, 1941-1973. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122430869 From the guide to the William Meredith collection of papers, 1941-1973, (The New York Pub...

Clemons, Walter

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