American poetry.
Found in 44 Collections and/or Records:
Clara Barrus and John Burroughs Papers
Physician, author, and editor (Clara Barrus). Naturalist and author (John Burroughs). Correspondence, estate papers, printed matter, scrapbooks, and writings pertaining to the works and travels of Clara Barrus and John Burroughs and the administration of their estates.
John Berryman Papers
Poet, scholar and professor at the University of Minnesota. Journals, correspondence, and other miscellany recording Berryman's relationship with his first wife, Eileen B. Simpson, his creative process, and his struggles and joys in life.
Horace Callaway Carlisle Poems
Author, poet, and teacher. Typescripts of unpublished poems by Carlisle dealing primarily with patriotic and Christian themes.
Katherine Garrison Chapin Papers
Poet and author. Correspondence, writings, and other material relating mainly to Garrison's published and unpublished poetry and plays.
John Vance Cheney Papers
Poet, essayist, and librarian. Family correspondence, general correspondence, a diary, manuscripts of poems, short stories, articles, and drafts of Cheney's unpublished autobiography, and other papers.
John Ciardi Papers
Poet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Advertisements, biographical material, contracts, correspondence, newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, press releases, research material, royalty statements with holograph and typescript drafts, galley proofs, page proofs, and printed versions of aphorisms, articles, book reviews, books, columns, essays, etymological dictionaries, limericks, plays, poems, poetry reviews, radio and television scripts, and speeches and lectures.
Gustav Davidson Papers
Poet, writer, publisher, and secretary of the Poetry Society of America. Primarily writings and correspondence concerning Davidson's work in poetry, publishing, and research on angels.
William Dawson Family Papers
Anglican clergyman, college president, and public official of Virginia. Correspondence, financial and administrative records, certificates, commissions, ecclesiastical papers, sermons, addresses, poetry, and other material concerning the ecclesiastical affairs of the Anglican Church in Virginia, administrative matters of the College of William and Mary, and professional and social affairs of William Dawson and his brother, Thomas Dawson, also a clergyman and college president.
Tyler Dennett Collection Relating to John Hay
Historian, editor, and biographer. Correspondence, research notes, galley proofs, photographs, and printed matter relating to Dennett's books John Hay: From Poetry to Politics and Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and Letters of John Hay.
Marcella Miller du Pont Papers
Poet and socialite. Correspondence, diary transcripts and notes, drafts of writings, notes, publication records, legal documents, scrapbook, Miller family genealogical records, photographs, and other papers relating to Marcella Miller du Pont's poetry and other writings, literary matters, and affairs of the du Pont and Miller families.
Elisabeth Dupuy Papers
Author, poet, and playwright. Poems, plays, short stories, correspondence, notebooks, and miscellaneous material.
Charles N. Elliot Collection
Collector and researcher of Walt Whitman. Correspondence, drafts, printed matter, and miscellaneous items relating to Whitman material and scholarship. Includes a small collection of Whitman manuscripts.
Lillian Everts Papers
Poet. Correspondence, biographical material, clippings, photocopies, invitations, advertisements, scripts, and printed matter relating to Everts's career in poetry.
Thomas Biggs Harned collection of Walt Whitman papers
Lawyer. Correspondence, manuscripts of poetry and prose, notes and notebooks, proofs and offprints, printed material, and other papers received by Harned as one of Walt Whitman's three literary executors. The collection contains material relating to many aspects of Whitman's career, especially the publication of and subsequent controversy surrounding "Leaves of Grass" and his commitment to the ideals embodied in the life and death of Abraham Lincoln.
John Hay Papers
Daniel Hoffman Papers
Poet, literary critic, and Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. Correspondence, drafts of poems and books, reference files, and personal papers and objects documenting Hoffman's life and work as a poet and scholar.
Dorsey William Hyde Papers
Librarian and archivist. Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, articles and speeches, genealogical and biographical material, drafts and typescripts, and miscellaneous items relating primarily to the National Archives, where Hyde served as director of archival service (1934-1942).
Milton Kessler Papers
Poet, editor, and educator. Correspondence, notebooks, book drafts, poem drafts, teaching materials, and family papers relating to Kessler's work as a poet, a co-editor with John Logan of Choice: A Magazine of Poetry and Graphics, and a professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton, N.Y.
Gizella Lakhman Papers
Poet, translator, and bibliographer. Correspondence, poems, translations, newspaper clippings, a scrapbook, printed matter, and other material relating to Lakhman's interests.
Archibald MacLeish Papers
Edwin Markham Papers
Poet and educator. Correspondence, notes, drafts and published versions of poems, and printed matter concerning Markham's writing and poetry.
Edna St. Vincent Millay Papers
Poet and writer. Correspondence, diaries, notebooks, literary drafts, legal documents, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, theatrical playbills, reports, printed matter, and family papers relating to Millay's life, family, and literary career.
Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection
Author and poet. Correspondence, literary drafts, photographs, and family papers relating to Millay’s life and literary career.
Merrill Moore Papers
Psychiatrist and poet. Diaries, correspondence, notebooks, biographical material, family papers, genealogical records, literary papers, scrapbooks, printed matter, and other papers relating to Moore's career as a psychiatrist and poet.
George Pope Morris Papers
Journalist, poet, and songwriter. Correspondence, poems, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Morris's work as editor of several literary magazines in New York, New York, and to his social affairs.