Creator:
Dillon, George, 1906-1968.
Inclusive Dates:
1862- 1982
Abstract:
The papers of the American poet include correspondence (1862-1973), family as well as that related to his editorship of Poetry magazine; minutes of the Modern Poetry Association (1950-1962); family diaries, financial papers, photographs, scrapbooks, and manuscripts that include material on a translation of "Les Fleurs du Mal" by Baudelaire, produced in collaboration with Edna St. Vincent Millay, and other translations of French authors, including Giraudoux, Prévert, and Ronsard. Correspondents include Helen S. Arthur, Robert Ballou, Morris Bishop, Eugen Boissevain, Amy Bonner, Inez Boulton, Augustine Bowe, Jean Burden, Witter Bynner, Gladys Campbell, Margaret Carpenter, Hayden Carruth, John Ciardi, Jean Cocteau, Malcolm Cowley, James Daly, Peter DeVries, Benjamin Huebsch, Nicholas Joost, Hugh Kenner, James Laughlin, Vachel Lindsay, Katinka Loeser, Je ssica MacDonald, Archibald MacLeish, Marcia Lee Masters, Harry Meacham, Arthur Meeker, Paul Mellon, William Meredith, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bonner Mitchell, Adrienne Monnier, Harriet Monroe, Marianne Moore, Gilbert Neiman, John Nerber, Louise Townsend Nicholl, John F. Nims, Sterling North, Gil Orlovitz, Henry Rago, Jean Rivier, Karl Jay Shapiro, William Jay Smith, Florence Stearns, Marion Strobel, Allen Tate, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Monroe Wheeler, and Morton Zabel.
Type of Material:
Diaries.
Genealogies (histories)
Manuscripts for publication.
Photographs.
Programs (documents)
Scrapbooks.
Subject:
Poetry (Chicago)
Editors.
Poets.
Translators.
Literature -- American Poetry
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- 20th century.
French literature -- Translations into English.
Periodical editors -- United States.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
Poets, American.
Creator:
Gregory, Horace, 1898-1982
Inclusive Dates:
1920- 1973
Abstract:
Papers of the American poet, literary critic, scholar. Correspondence which is of greatest depth and duration includes letters from William Rose Benet, Winifred Bryher, Eleanor Clark, Malcolm Cowley, E.E. Cummings, Hilda Doolittle, Richard Eberhart, James Farrell, Dudley Fitts, John Gould Fletcher, Joseph Freeman, Robert Hillyer, Raymond E. F. Larsson, Norman Holmes Pearson,James Putnam, Muriel Rukeyser, Evelyn Scott, Winfield Townley Scott, John Sweeney, Allen Tate, M.B. Thornton, Louis Untermeyer, T.C. Wilson, and Morton Zabel.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Manuscripts for publication.
Subject:
New letters in America.
New masses.
Poets.
Radicalism
Literature -- American Poetry
Literature -- American Fiction
American literature -- 20th century.
American poetry -- Women authors.
American poetry -- 20th century.
Literature -- History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
Poets, American -- 20th century.