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W.D. Snodgrass letters to Lila Jean Hank
William G. Thompson Briarwood Writers' Alliance correspondence and publicity records
William G. Thompson as President of the Briarwood Writers' Alliance, Inc., represented more than 150 writers, poets, and performers by booking lectures and readings at educational institutions, literary gatherings, and community events.
University of Delaware Library collection of websites relating to the Library’s literary collections
This collection documents websites and social media related to authors, playwrights, and other literary figures and organizations which complement and enrich existing literary collections held in Special Collections. This collection includes sites related to University of Delaware Library holdings in American literature; Irish literature; and theatre.
Louis Untermeyer papers
The Louis Untermeyer papers consist of five linear feet of manuscript material abandoned by Untermeyer when he sold his Adirondack home, Stony Water, around 1970. Dating from 1902 through 1972, with the bulk of the papers dating 1912–1935, the collection is composed of correspondence, proofs, lists, scrapbooks, notes, photographs, programs, announcements, lectures, anthologies, poems, reviews, essays, and a bookplate.
Carl Van Vechten photograph portrait of Owen Dodson
Black-and-white photograph portrait of poet, novelist, playwright, and educator Owen Dodsen taken by photographer Carl Van Vechten in New York on June 18, 1942.
Lewis Warsh collection
The Lewis Warsh collection is a small collection of materials relating to publishing projects by American poet, novelist, and editor Lewis Warsh and by American authors Steve Carey, Ted Berrigan, and Tom Savage produced by Warsh's Angel Hair Books and United Artists Books. The collection spans the dates between 1968 and 2001 and consists of material at various stages of the publication process, including mock-ups, advanced uncorrected proofs, uncorrected galley proofs, and cover art.
Lewis Warsh collection of twentieth-century poetry ephemera
American poet Lewis Warsh (born 1944) compiled this collection of promotional ephemera primarily documenting what is known as the second generation of the New York School. The collection also includes material relating to Warsh's own readings and performances, writing, and publishing ventures.
John Wieners holograph poetry notebook
This holograph poetry notebook was kept by twentieth-century American poet and activist John Wieners (1934-2002), who was associated with the Beat movement and the Black Mountain School. The notebook contains several unpublished poems as well as prose writings and lists kept between 1962 and 1965.
John Wieners manuscript poetry notebook
This notebook was kept by twentieth-century American poet and activist John Wieners (1934-2002), who was associated with the Beat movement and the Black Mountain School of poets. Kept primarily between May and June 1962, the volume contains several unpublished poems, prose writings, a clipping, and a collage.
Gustave Percival Wiksell miscellaneous material related to Bliss Carman, F. B. Sanborn, and R. W. Trine
Gustave Percival Wiksell (1863-1940) was a Boston dentist who also served as president of the Walt Whitman Fellowship from 1903 until 1919. The Gustave Percival Wiksell miscellaneous material related to Bliss Carman, F. B. Sanborn, and R. W. Trine contains letters, photographs, and clippings that were originally laid in books that were part of Wiksell's collection.
Tennessee Williams collection
The Tennessee Williams collection, spanning the dates 1939-2013, consists of an extensive collection of correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, printed material, and ephemera related to American playwright Tennessee Williams.
William Carlos Williams and Kay Boyle letters to Charlotte Wilson
Eight autograph letters, one written and signed by William Carlos Williams to Charlotte Wilson commenting positively on a poem she wrote, five letters from Williams's wife, Florence, to Wilson, and two letters from Kay Boyle to Wilson, dated from December 3, 1957 to November 1, 1961.
Robert A. Wilson collection
The Robert A. Wilson collection comprises 9 linear feet of material related to 36 prominent literary figures, previously in the private collection of Robert A. Wilson, the final owner of the Phoenix Book Shop, in New York City (1962-1988).
Robert A. Wilson John Wieners collection
Robert A. Wilson W. H. Auden collection
W. B. (William Butler) Yeats letter to George MacDonald
Letter from W. B. Yeats to George MacDonald and a letter from MacDonald's secretary to W. B. Yeats. These items were originally laid in W. B. Yeats's A Speech In Two Poems (1937).
Pauline A. Young collection
Pauline A. Young was an educator, librarian, and activist primarily based in Wilmington, Delaware. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and ephemera. The majority of the material relates to Young’s efforts to bring attention to and preserve information about the life and works of her aunt, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, as well as her aunt's first husband, Paul Laurence Dunbar.