Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
Title | Muriel Rukeyser papers, 1844-1986 |
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Inclusive Dates | 1844-1986 |
Bulk Dates | 1930-1979 |
ID No. | MSS38505 |
Creator | Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913- |
Extent | 30,000 items |
Extent | 88 containers plus 6 oversize |
Extent | 38.8 linear feet |
Extent | 7 microfilm reels |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006024 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm82038505 |
Summary | Poet and biographer. Part I contains correspondence, diaries, appointment books, drafts, notes and notebooks, typescripts, proofs, production material, printed matter, and miscellaneous items relating to Rukeyser's literary contributions in the fields of biography, poetry, and translation, her public speeches and classroom lectures, and her commitment to social protest in support of human rights. Part II supplements the material in Part I and includes holograph drafts and typescripts, outlines, notes and notebooks, trial lines, research material, and other items relating to Rukeyser's poetry and writings, in particular The Orgy, The Speed of Darkness, The Traces of Thomas Hariot, and her translations of Gunnar Ekelöf, Selected Poems of Gunnar Ekelöf, and Octavio Paz, Selected Poems of Octavio Paz. |