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100 1 _aCiardi, John,
_d1916-1986.
245 0 0 _aJohn Ciardi papers,
_f1910-1997
_g(bulk 1960-1985).
300 _a31,500
_fitems.
300 _a91
_fcontainers plus
_a2
_foversize.
300 _a36.6
_flinear feet.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
506 _aRestrictions may apply to unprocessed material.
520 8 _aChiefly 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.
520 8 _aThe 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."
520 8 _aCiardi'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.
520 8 _aOther 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.
520 8 _aCorrespondents 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.
545 0 _aPoet, editor, literary critic, lecturer, and journalist. Full name: John Anthony Ciardi.
546 _aCollection material in English.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003057
600 1 0 _aAbbe, George,
_d1911-1989
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aAdams, Léonie,
_d1899-1988
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBasler, Roy P.
_q(Roy Prentice),
_d1906-1989
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBenét, Stephen Vincent,
_d1898-1943.
600 1 0 _aBurroughs, William S.,
_d1914-1997.
_tNaked lunch.
600 1 0 _aCousins, Norman
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDobie, J. Frank
_q(James Frank),
_d1888-1964
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aEberhart, Richard,
_d1904-2005.
600 1 0 _aFitts, Dudley,
_d1903-1968
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aFrost, Robert,
_d1874-1963
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHolmes, John Haynes,
_d1879-1964.
600 1 0 _aJaffe, Dan
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKennedy, X. J.
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aKreymborg, Alfred,
_d1883-1966
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMacLeish, Archibald,
_d1892-1982.
600 1 0 _aNims, John Frederick,
_d1913-1999
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPack, Robert,
_d1929-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPratt, Fletcher,
_d1897-1956.
600 1 0 _aRoethke, Theodore,
_d1908-1963
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRukeyser, Muriel,
_d1913-1980
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aScott, Winfield Townley,
_d1910-1968
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSchwartz, Shloime,
_d1907-1988
600 1 0 _aSloane, William,
_d1906-1974
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aSwenson, May
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTerkel, Studs,
_d1912-2008.
600 1 0 _aThoma, Henry F.
_q(Henry Francis)
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aViereck, Peter,
_d1916-2006.
600 1 0 _aWallace, Henry A.
_q(Henry Agard),
_d1888-1965.
600 1 0 _aWilbur, Richard,
_d1921-
_vCorrespondence.
610 2 0 _aAlabama Education Association.
610 2 0 _aAmerican Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
610 2 0 _aAmerican Academy in Rome.
610 2 0 _aBates College (Lewiston, Me.)
_xStudents.
610 2 0 _aBread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College.
610 2 0 _aCBS Television Network.
610 2 0 _aCollege English Association.
610 2 0 _aGarden State Choral Society.
610 2 0 _aHarvard University
_xFaculty.
610 2 0 _aLibrary of Congress.
610 2 0 _aNational Public Radio (U.S.)
610 2 0 _aProgressive Party (U.S. : 1948)
610 2 0 _aRutgers University
_xFaculty.
610 2 0 _aTufts University
_xStudents.
610 2 0 _aTwayne Publishers.
610 2 0 _aUniversity of Missouri at Kansas City.
_xFaculty.
630 0 0 _aSaturday review.
650 0 _aAmerican periodicals.
650 0 _aAmerican poetry.
650 0 _aArt
_vExhibitions.
650 0 _aArt, Modern.
650 0 _aChildren's poetry.
650 0 _aEnglish language
_xStudy and teaching.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_xCensorship.
650 0 _aLectures and lecturing.
650 0 _aOral interpretation of poetry.
650 0 _aPlagiarism.
650 0 _aProtest movements
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aScience fiction.
650 0 _aSegregation
_zAlabama.
656 7 _aCritics.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aEditors.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aJournalists.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aLecturers.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aPoets.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003057
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003057.3
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