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Dennis Jackson collection of letters
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0099-F0982
Abstract
Four typed letters sent from various correspondents, including W. D. Snodgrass, to Dennis Jackson spanning from 1984 to 2001.
Dates:
1984 March 6-2001 January 14
W. D. Snodgrass letters and manuscripts to Jerome Mazzaro
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0273
Abstract
This collection contains correspondence and literary manuscripts exchanged between twentieth century American poet and scholar W. D. Snodgrass and twentieth century American writer and scholar Jerome Mazzaro.
Dates:
1961-1977
W.D. Snodgrass letters to Lila Jean Hank
Collection
Identifier: MSS 0723
Abstract
Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet W.D. (William De Witt) Snodgrass (1926-2009) wrote 58 letters between 1944 and 1946 to his then-fiancée Lila Jean Hank after being drafted into the United States Navy and stationed in Saipan. The letters described life on the naval base at the end of World War II and a long, anxious period of demobilization in the Pacific. Snodgrass was one of the early practitioners of the confessional style in American poetry with his first volume ...
Dates:
1944-1946