Fitts, Dudley, 1903-1968
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1903 - 1968
Dudley Fitts (1903-1968), American poet, translator, literary critic, and educator
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Dudley Fitts papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 296
Overview:
The Dudley Fitts Papers consists chiefly of writings and correspondence relating to the production of the first American edition of An Anthology of Contemporary Latin-American Poetry (New Directions, 1942).
Dates:
1928-1968, bulk 1941-1943
Robert Fitzgerald papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 222
Overview:
Series I, Correspondence, consists chiefly of incoming personal and professional correspondence and family correspondence. The collection is particularly rich for its correspondence with poets, editors, translators, publishers, and literary scholars and critics during the middle part of the 20th century. There are letters from many well-known poets writing in English during this period, including W.H. Auden, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Bogan, James Dickey, T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney,...
Dates:
1892-1986
Furioso papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 75
Overview:
The Furioso papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts of submissions, editorial board files, and other office files relating to the publishing history of Furioso; a Magazine of Verse (1939-1953). Correspondents include E. E. Cummings, Richard Eberhart, Weldon Kees, Lawrence Olson, Ezra Pound, Peter Viereck, and William Carlos Williams. Manuscripts are primarily typescripts and setting typescripts of submissions to Furioso. The office files include advertising and publicity material, the...
Dates:
1938-1951
Maxine Kumin papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 734
Overview:
The collection contains writings, correspondence, and other materials documenting Maxine Kumin's literary work and professional and public activities since 1960.
Dates:
1923-2015
Letter : Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, to Harvey Shapiro, 1946 December 11
Part of Collection — Box: 109, Folder: 6
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter, signed, declining participation in Shapiro's project on Ezra Pound, and discussing Fitts's experience editing Greek and Latin texts in Ezra Pound's Cantos.
Dates:
1946 December 11
Letters : to Arthur Mizener, 1937-46
Part of Collection — Box: 42, Folder: GROUP 698, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents:
Letters consists of eight TLS and three ALS, with envelopes, dealing chiefly with literary matters, including translations. Accompanied by three poems, typescript.
Dates:
1937-46
William Horace Littlefield papers related to "Portrait Drawings of Poets, and Their Manuscripts" exhibition
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 602
Overview:
The collections consists of artwork, manuscripts, correspondence, and other material relating to William Horace Littlefield's exhibition "Portrait Drawings of Poets, and Their Manuscripts" (1942). The bulk of the collection is comprised of the original portrait drawings and mounted autograph and typescript manuscripts of American and British poets displayed in the exhibit. According to an artist note found in the collection, "the drawings are portrait heads in pencil on grey-green paper,...
Dates:
1932-1977, bulk 1941-1947
Dudley Poore papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 599
Overview:
Collection contains correspondence, notebooks and diaries, writings, photographs, and other materials documenting the personal and professional life of American poet and author Dudley Poore. Poore was part of a circle of writers at Harvard University that included e.e. cummings, John Dos Passos, Robert Hillyer, Robert Stewart Mitchell, and Cuthbert Wright, and the correspondence features letters with these associates, as well as John Peale Bishop, Dudley Fitts, Robert Finch, Arthur K. McComb,...
Dates:
1840s-1975
Tiger's Eye records
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 362
Overview:
The records document all aspects of the production and distribution of the little magazine The Tiger's Eye, from its inception in 1947 through the decision to cease publication in 1951. Correspondence, manuscripts, and business records document the creative and editorial process, the enthusiasm of its readership, its subscription base, and the work involved in producing and distributing the issues.
Dates:
1939-1955