Léonie Adams and William Troy papers
Scope and Contents
Dates
- 1902 - 1987
Creator
Language of Materials
Conditions Governing Access
Existence and Location of Copies
Conditions Governing Use
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Arrangement
Extent
13.67 Linear Feet ((25 boxes) + 2 broadside folders)
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Overview
Léonie Adams
Adams spent the rest of her career editing and teaching poetry for various institutions, including Columbia University; New York University; New Jersey College for Women (known then as Douglass College), from which she received an honorary doctoral degree in 1950; the University of Washington; the Breadloaf Writers Conference; and Sarah Lawrence College. In 1954, she won the Harriet Monroe Award from Poetry and in 1955 she won the Shelley Memorial Prize and shared the Bollingen Prize for Poems: A Selection with her friend and fellow poet, Louise Bogan. She received an Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets in 1974. She died on June 27, 1988 in New Milford, Connecticut.
William Troy
Processing Information
- Adams, Léonie, 1899-1988
- Authors
- Authors, American -- 20th Century -- Archives
- Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948
- Columbia University
- Editors
- Gordon, Caroline, 1895-1981
- Library of Congress
- Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977
- National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.)
- Oxford University Press
- Phillips, Eleanor
- Photographs
- Poets, American -- 20th Century -- Archives
- Rutgers University
- Tate, Allen, 1899-1979
- Troy, William, 1903-1961
- Title
- Guide to the Léonie Adams and William Troy Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- by Molly Wheeler
- Date
- January 2009
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2010-02-10: Transformed with yale.addEadidUrl.xsl. Adds @url with handle for finding aid. Overwrites @url if already present.
- 2021-09-28: 2019 Addition
Part of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Repository
Location
121 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Opening Hours
Access Information
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