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Part III: Writings, 1947-1968 (continued)
Ang-Any
“Angel-Fluffs, Savages, and Dispensable Adults,” undated
[Any man, as I believe I read in the Bill of Rights...], undated
B-E
“Bread Loaf, USA,” undated
[The big package is marked “Truth – Idle with Care”], undated
“Dear Kip,” undated
“The Detroit Follies,” undated
“E. L. Mayo – A Modern Metaphysical,” 1947
[Epiphanius Wilson, A.M., is not a name that reverberates...], undated
[Every generation of poets has its would-be law-givers...], undated
[Everyone hopes a little], undated
F
“A Fable of the Father of Assassins,” undated
“A Faith for Life in Literature?” undated
H
[Harvard has required no defense from me and I have made none], undated See Container II:64, Progressive Party, and Container III:16, Notebook B, pp. 278-279
[Here comes 1968, and if only as a collector of lost causes...], circa 1967
[The hospital corridor, dimmed for the night watch of sleep...], undated See Container III:16, Notebook B, pp. 225-235
“How to Read Dante,” 1961
I
“Italy: The Sense of Rapture,” undated
J-M
“Jim Crow Is Treason,” 1960
“Last November,” undated
“Milton Hebald,” circa 1963
“Morals, Anyone? or What Good Is Literature, Anyhow?” undated
[My wife and I puzzled at the thing for a while...], undated
O
“On the Road,” undated
“On Writing and Bad Writing,” 1962
Poet
“The Poet and the Politician,” 1960, undated
(1 folder)
BOX III: 7 (1 folder)
Poet's-Poetry As
[The poet's eye is a trained eye], undated
“Poetry and Metaphor,” undated
“Poetry and the High School System,” undated
“Poetry As Knowledge: A Dialogue with a Realist,” undated
Poetry in-Prose
“Poetry in Crystal,” undated
“Poetry Is for Pleasure,” 1960 See Container III:16, Notebook A, pp. 21-39
“Poetry: The Word and the Image,” 1964
[PR men don't care – so long as it makes a noise], undated
“Prose Poems from the Journal of Lazarus Smith,” undated
Q-R
“Quotations for Mr. R. J. Dandenau,” undated
“The Relevance of The Inferno,” undated
“Rico Lebrun and Dante,” undated
[Robert Frost's eighty-eighth birthday...], undated
Sm-Som
“The Small Private College,” undated
[Some of the fast burners know it, even advertize it], undated
[Some parts of Nettie Forbish's nervous system...], undated
Son-Su
“Song for an Allegorical Play,” 1962
“Statement by the Library Board,” undated
[Summer in New York is the time when the side street hotels...], undated
There
[There are good signs that New Jersey is determined...], undated
[There is power in the American people], circa 1968
This-Two
“This Side of the Mirror,” undated
[This Spring John O'Hara was given the Award of Merit Medal for the Novel...], undated
“Thomas Stearns Eliot, 1888-1964,” undated
“Translation: The Art of Failure,” 1961
[The true poet must love his art enough to honor it...], undated
[Two years ago, after an evening lecture at a good Catholic girls' college...], undated
V-W
“Veterans Day,” 1961
“What Every Writer Must Learn,” 1956
“What Is Modern Poetry?” undated See Container III:16, Notebook B, pp. 31-35
“What Makes It a Poem?” undated See Container III:16, Notebook A, pp. 9-15
“Work Habits of Writers,” 1965
Unidentified fragments, undated
(2 folders)
BOX III: 8 Book reviews
Arthos, John, Dante, Michelangelo and Milton, undated
Braine, John, Life at the Top, 1962
Cameron, Kenneth Neil, editor, Shelley and His Circle, 1773-1822, 1961
Cleland, John, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, undated
Cummings, E. E., 73 Poems, 1963
Faulkner, William, The Wishing Tree, 1967
Frost, Robert, In the Clearing, 1962
Fruchter, Norman, Coat upon a Stick, undated
Holmes, John, Writing Poetry, 1960
O'Hara, John, From the Terrace, undated
Books
An Alphabestiary
Author's proofs, 1966
Draft, undated
(2 folders)
Galley proofs, 1965
As If: Poems New and Selected, printer's copy, 1955
Dialogue with an Audience, introduction, drafts, 1962, undated
Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translation
Inferno, translator's note, printer's copy, undated
Purgatorio
Correspondence, 1960-1961
Drafts
Holograph, cantos III, IV, XVI, XIX, and miscellany, undated
BOX III: 9 Typescript C with notes by editor, 1961
(7 folders)
Printed versions, cantos XIX and XXVII, 1959-1960, undated
Translator's note, typescript, undated
Paradiso
Drafts
Holograph, cantos I, VII, IX, XXIX, and miscellany, undated
Typescript, cantos I, III, XXXI, and XXXIII, undated
Printed version, canto XXI, 1967
I Met a Man
Book reviews, 1961
Drafts
Holograph, undated
BOX III: 10 Typescript, 1959
(3 folders)
Printer's copy, undated
In Fact
Author's proofs, 1962-1963
Drafts
Typescript A, undated
(2 folders)
Typescript B, 1962
Printer's copy, 1962
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