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Fitts, Dudley, 1903-1968

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1903 - 1968

Biography

Dudley Fitts (1903-1968), American poet, translator, literary critic, and educator

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

FITTS, DUDLEY, 1903-1968

 Sub-Series
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC

Dudley Fitts papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 296
Abstract:

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
Abstract: 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...
Dates: 1892-1986

Furioso papers

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 75
Abstract: 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
Abstract:

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: [Barcode: 39002140920878], 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: [Barcode: 39002137170511], 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
Abstract: 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
Abstract: 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....
Dates: 1840s-1975

Tiger's Eye records

 Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 362
Abstract:

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

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Archival Object 3
 
Subject
American literature -- 20th century 3
Authors 3
Authors, American -- 20th Century -- Archives 3
Photographic prints 3
Authors and publishers -- United States 2