Ciardi, John 1916-1986 creator mixed material monographic eng 31,500 91 2 36.6 Chiefly prose and verse manuscripts, together with correspondence, advertisements, biographical material, contracts, drawings. newspaper clippings, notes, photographs, press releases, research material, royalty statements, and other papers. Includes holograph and typescript drafts, galley and page proofs, and printed versions of aphorisms, articles, book reviews, books, columns, essays, etymological dictionaries, plays, poems, poetry reviews, radio and television scripts, and speeches and lectures. The collection primarily focuses on Ciardi's career as poetry editor and writer of the column, "Manner of Speaking," for the Saturday Review and also as director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College, as a member of the faculty at Harvard University, Rutgers University, and University of Missouri at Kansas City, as editor of poetry and science fiction at Twayne Publishers, and as host of the CBS television series, "Accent" and the National Public Radio series, "A Word in Your Ear." Ciardi's English translation of Dante Aligheri's Divine Comedy, a twenty-year project, is also documented as is the publication of twenty-four of his books and the works of his associates, Stephen Vincent Benét, Richard Eberhart, John Haynes Holmes, Archibald MacLeish, Fletcher Pratt, Shloime ("Selwyn") Schwartz, Studs Terkel, and Peter Robert Edwin Viereck. Other projects noted include his poetry for children, anthologies of essays and poetry, limericks, and writings for textbooks, recordings of his poetry readings, his appearances at the Library of Congress, and other speaking engagements. Other aspects of the collection include Ciardi's student days at Bates College and Tufts University, his support of Henry Agard Wallace and the Progressive Party, the trial regarding William S. Burroughs's book, Naked Lunch (1959), Ciardi's refusal to attend a racially segregated meeting of the Alabama Education Association, his role as an advisor for student publications at Tufts University, his involvement with campus unrest in the 1960s, his fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, and his association with the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, College English Association, and Garden State Choral Society. Also includes material on art exhibitions, censorship, English language instruction, modern art, and plagiarism. Correspondents include George Abbe, Léonie Adams, Roy Prentice Basler, Norman Cousins, J. Frank Dobie, Richard Eberhart, Dudley Fitts, Robert Frost, John Haynes Holmes, Dan Jaffe, X. J. Kennedy, Alfred Kreymborg, Archibald MacLeish, John Frederick Nims, Robert Pack, Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, Winfield Townley Scott, William Sloane, May Swenson, Henry F. Thoma, and Richard Wilbur. Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. Poet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Full name: John Anthony Ciardi. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003057 Abbe, George 1911-1989 Correspondence Adams, Léonie 1899-1988 Correspondence Basler, Roy P. (Roy Prentice) 1906-1989 Correspondence Benét, Stephen Vincent 1898-1943 Burroughs, William S 1914-1997 Cousins, Norman Correspondence Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank) 1888-1964 Correspondence Eberhart, Richard 1904-2005 Fitts, Dudley 1903-1968 Correspondence Frost, Robert 1874-1963 Correspondence Holmes, John Haynes 1879-1964 Jaffe, Dan Correspondence Kennedy, X. J Correspondence Kreymborg, Alfred 1883-1966 Correspondence MacLeish, Archibald 1892-1982 Nims, John Frederick 1913-1999 Correspondence Pack, Robert 1929- Correspondence Pratt, Fletcher 1897-1956 Roethke, Theodore 1908-1963 Correspondence Rukeyser, Muriel 1913-1980 Correspondence Scott, Winfield Townley 1910-1968 Correspondence Schwartz, Shloime 1907-1988 Sloane, William 1906-1974 Correspondence Swenson, May Correspondence Terkel, Studs 1912-2008 Thoma, Henry F. (Henry Francis) Correspondence Viereck, Peter 1916-2006 Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard) 1888-1965 Wilbur, Richard 1921- Correspondence Alabama Education Association. American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. American Academy in Rome. Bates College (Lewiston, Me.) Students Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College. CBS Television Network. College English Association. Garden State Choral Society. Harvard University Faculty Library of Congress. National Public Radio (U.S.) Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) Rutgers University Faculty Tufts University Students Twayne Publishers. University of Missouri at Kansas City. Faculty American periodicals American poetry Art Exhibitions Art, Modern Children's poetry English language Study and teaching English literature Censorship Lectures and lecturing Oral interpretation of poetry Plagiarism Protest movements United States Science fiction Segregation Alabama Critics Editors Journalists Lecturers Poets mm 74015826 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003057 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms003057.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003057 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003057.3 Open to research. Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material. DLC 741021 20260227111615.0 mm 74015826