Wallace Ludwig Anderson letters on William Vaughn Moody, 1947-1949

Collection context

Creator:
Anderson, Wallace Ludwig, 1917-
Extent:
0.5 linear feet (1 box)
Language:
English .
Scope and content:

Letters from 27 English and American poets answering a request from Wallace L. Anderson, then a graduate student at the University of Chicago writing his dissertation, for opinions and assessments of the poet William Vaughn Moody. Some of the responses are simply pleas of insufficient time or knowledge to give adequate answers, but others are considered assessments or strongly expressed opinions. The respondents giving substantive answers were William Rose Benet, John Ciardi, John Gould Fletcher, John Holmes, Robert Lovett, Edgar Lee Masters, Muriel Rukeyser, George Santayana, Ferdinand Schevill, Karl Shapiro, Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, Lawrence Thompson, Louis Untermeyer, and William Carlos Williams.

Complete list of correspondents: Aiken, Conrad; Aldington, Richard; Benet, William Rose; Bynner, Witter; Ciardi, John; Eliot, Thomas Stearns; Fletcher, John Gould; Hillyer, Robert Silliman; Holmes, John; Hughes, Langston; Lovett, Robert Morss; Masefield, John; Masters, Edgar Lee; Ransom, John Crowe; Rukeyser, Muriel; Sackvllle-West, Victoria May; Santayana, George; Sarton, May; Schevill, Ferdinand; Shapiro, Karl; Sitwell, Osbert; Stevens, Wallace; Tate, Allen; Thompson, Lawrence; Untermeyer, Louis; Warren, Robert Perm; Williams, William Carlos.

Access and use

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Terms of access:

Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Wallace Ludwig Anderson letters on William Vaughn Moody; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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