Richard Poirier Collection, 1945-2007, bulk 1986-2007

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Series I: Correspondence, 1971-2007

Series I is comprised of personal and professional correspondence received by Poirier, as well as some copies of his outgoing correspondence. The letters relate to his work as a literature professor at Rutgers, his role as editor of Raritan and personal correspondence between Poirier and his friends.


Alphabetical



Box 1 A-Z, 1971-2007, 6 folders


Box 1 Adams, Alice, 1992-1999


Box 1 Brommich, David, 1992-1998


Box 1 Burnshaw, Stanley, 1984-1999


Box 1 Donoghue, Denis, 1992-2000


Box 1 Ferry, David, 1992-2008


Box 1 Hellman, Lillian, 1978-1983


Box 1 Hollander, John, 1993-2004


Box 1 Hyman, Suzanne, 1998-2000


Box 1 Jehler, Myra, 1987-1993


Box 1 Kenmode, Frank, 1992-2007


Box 1 Merrell, James, 1992-2002


Box 1 Said, Edward, 1991-1999


Box 1 Seidel, Frederick and Mae Griswold


Box 1 Vidal, Gore, 1974-1995, 2 folders


Box 1 Weiseltier, Leon, 1987-1999


Topical


Box 1 Offers from Other Universities, 1978-1987


Box 1 Humanities 6 Course at Harvard


Box 1 Harvard Advisory Committee, 1987-1991


Box 1 Lecture Invitations, 1990-1995


Box 1 Letters of Recommendation, 1990-2004


Box 1 Letters Received on the Publication of The Renewal of Literature, , 1987


Box 1 Rutgers Univerity-- Amiri Baraka, 1989-1990


Box 1 Reader's Catalogue, 1987


Box 1 Philip Poirier, 1979

Series II: Writings and Notes, Undated, 1986-1996

The Writings and Notes Series includes research notes and manuscript drafts of many of Poirier's scholarly articles, books, and book reviews as well as some copies of published articles. These files are arranged topically by the subject of a work according to Poirier's own organizational and naming schemes. Therefore, researchers seeking material related to the book The Renewal of Literature, should look under "Emerson, Ralph Waldo" rather than the title of the book.

This series also includes some lecture notes and teaching material, including student essays from a 1986 course Poirier taught at Rutgers. These student papers are restricted until 2056.



Box 2 Unpublished or Uncollected Writings, undated, 1988-1996, 4 folders


Box 2 Aesthetics of Radicalism


Box 2 Balanchine, George


Box 2 Bellow, Saul


Box 2 Eliot, George


Box 2 Eliot, T.S.


Box 2 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 5 folders


Box 2 Frost, Robert, 6 folders


Box 2 James, Henry



Box 3 Joyce, James


Box 3 London Review of Books, 1989


Box 3 Midler, Bette


Box 3 O'Connor, Flannery


Box 3 O'Hara, Frank


Box 3 Pynchon, Thomas, 2 folders


Box 3 Stein, Gertrude


Box 3 Technology and Literary Technique


Box 3 Vidal, Gore


Lecture Notes


Box 3 General


Box 3 Shakespeare


Box 3 Student Papers, 1986

[Restricted until 2056]


Box 3 Reviews of Poirier's Books, 2 folders

Series III: Biographical Material, 1945-1992

The Biographical Material series is comprised of a small amount of biographical material including, notably, some of Poirier's diaries from the 1970s and early 1980s.


Box 3 CV and Resume


Box 3 Diaries, 1973-1982


Box 3 Philip Poirier's Diaries, 1945


Box 3 Modern Language Association Panel on Poirier, 1992


Box 3 Salmagundi Interview with Poirier


Box 3 Raritan Poirier tribute issue, 2010

Series IV: Additions to the Collection


2023:

Correspondence between Garry Watson and Richard Poirier; an open letter by Watson, including copy to Poirier, to Norman Mailor and editors of Dissent responding to David Bromwich; a letter to the TLS criticizing their review of Poirier, and a copy of White Pelican, a small-run journal that includes a review of Poirier's "The Performing Self".



Box 4 Folder 1-6 Correspondence between Poirier and Garry Watson, 1971-1992


Box 4 Folder 7 Richard Poirier to W. Stauffacher, 23 January 1973


Box 4 Folder 8 Garry Watson to The Editor, TLS, 9 February 1972


Box 4 Folder 9 Garry Watson to Norman Mailer, 8 January 1974


Box 4 Folder 10 Garry Watson to David Bromwich, 21 January 1974


Box 4 Folder 11 Garry Watson to The Editors of Dissent, 8 January 1974


Box 4 Folder 12 Garry Watson to Irving Howe, 30 January 1974


Box 4 Folder 13 Garry Watson to David Bromwich, 30 January 1974


Box 4 Folder 14 Irving Howe to Garry Watson, 1 February 1974


Box 4 Folder 15 Garry Watson "An Open Letter to David Bromwich, Norman Mailer and the Editors of Dissent, 8 January 1974


Box 4 Folder 16 David Bromwich "Sex in the Head" (review of Last Tango in Paris in Dissent Vol. XX No 4., fall 1973


Box 4 Folder 17 Garry Watson "The Unbuilding of a Man: Some Notes on Self Expression" (photocopy of essay)