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Modernism (Literature)

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Scope Note: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024455 Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Conrad Aiken Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms003
Scope and Contents The Conrad Aiken Papers consist entirely of material from his long-standing correspondence with Robert Linscott, an editor with Houghton-Mifflin and later senior editor for Random House. Aiken and Linscott began their long friendship in 1917 and Linscott helped Aiken publish several of his works. Aiken's letters to Linscott document the progress of his work and often reflect Aiken's extreme frustration at his lack of popular success. In them, Aiken describes his personal situation,...

W.H. Auden Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 1, Folder: 06
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf006
Scope and Contents

Sapphic ode with scansion in Auden's hand and awards program.

Louise Bogan Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-MS-ms015
Scope and Contents The Louise Bogan Papers includes correspondence and editorial matter. Correspondence includes a letter from Louise Bogan to William Matheson. Editorial material includes four sets of preliminary pages for volume one of the Works of Goethe; galley proofs of the sections translated by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Mayer, Jane Bannard Greene and Heinz Norden, and Alice Raphael - Werther, Elective affinities, German Refugees, and Parable- and the introduction by...

Cecil Day Lewis Letters

 Collection — Box VMF 4, Folder: 5
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf038
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Cecil Day Lewis to Alan Hancox, 2 items.

T.S. Eliot Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS-MS-ms153
Scope and Contents The T.S. Eliot Collection includes revised copy of T. S. Eliot's Collected Poems, 1909-1935, with corrections and annotations in the author's hand, undertaken in preparation for a new edition. Also included is a typescript of section titled Occasional Verses, which was added to the original edition. These poems include "Defense of the islands," "A Note on War Poetry," "For the Indian Soldiers [sic] Who...

Ford Madox Ford Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms046
Scope and Contents The most significant portion of Washington University's Ford Madox Ford Papers is the carbon typescript of A Little Less Than Gods (1928), Ford's novel of romance and adventure set in the Napoleonic Wars. This manuscript contains numerous revisions and corrections by him. The collection also contains several letters from Ford, primarily to Alfred H. Mendes, whose book Ford was helping to get published, as well as an autograph draft of the poem ...

Laura Riding Jackson Collection

 Collection — Box VMF 17, Folder: 28
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf220
Scope and Contents

Correspondence from Jackson to Marie Syrkin and poem drafts by Jackson

George Moore and William Butler Yeats Typescript

 Collection — Box VMF 11, Folder: 1
Identifier: MS-VMF-vmf117
Scope and Contents 1900. Typescript of Diarmuid and Grania: A Play in Three Acts by Moore and Yeats. 106 pages. First performed October 21, 1901 at the Gaiety Theatre, Bullin by the F. R. Benson Company at the request of the Irish Literary Theatre.1951 April-June. Photocopy of first publication, Dublin Magazine, Volume XXVI, Number 2 (New Series). Title page reads `Diarmuid and Grania. A play in three acts, by George Moore and W.B....

Marianne Moore Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms085
Scope and Contents

The Marianne Moore Papers consists of correspondence principally between Mona Van Duyn, Charles Guenther, Chancellor and Mrs. Thomas H. Eliot and William Matheson, a typescript [carbon] manuscript of critical review of Louise Bogan's Selected Criticism and Kenneth Burke's Book of Moments, a typescript draft of Quoting an also private thought [poem], and a clippings.

Richard Stang Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS-MS-ms138
Scope and Contents

The Richard Stang Papers consists of correspondence, manuscripts, research material toward Ford Madox Ford books by Richard Stang and Sondra Stang.