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III. Prose [series]:
Scope: Consists of prose and material toward prose broken into five
sub-series: Essays and stories, Harvard Work, Introductions, Reviews
and Miscellaneous.
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| box-folder 195-201/4328-4454 |
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III.1 Essays and Stories
Scope: Consists of essays and stories arranged alphabetically by title
or first line.
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| box-folder 195/4328 |
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About Shirley Jackson's
Books .[memorial]
(Ts. 1p.) |
| box-folder 195/4329 |
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"Airports are surely the
loneliest places on earth..." [essay]
(Ts, 5p.) |
| box-folder 195/4330 |
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Attentiveness and Obedience
.[essay]
(Ts, 27p. Broadcast on Voice of America, Central
Services Division, 1964:February.) |
| box-folder 195/4331 |
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Award of the Theodore
Roethke Memorial Prize for Poetry to Carolyn Kizer
.[speech]
(Ts, 2p) |
| box-folder 195/4332 |
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Bottom's
Dream .[essay]
(Ts. 17p. includes 43 pp of notes and partial photocopy
of published version, Virginia Quarterly
Review Vol 42 (Autumn, 1966).)
Scope: Galley proofs located in oversize.
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| box-folder 195/4333 |
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Breaking Silence
.[essay]
(Ts. 4p.) |
| box-folder 195/4334 |
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A Budget of Problems
.[essay]
(Ts. 3p. includes 3p of notes.) |
| box-folder 195/4335 |
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Calculation Raised to
Mystery: The Dialectics of Light in August
.[essay]
(Ts. 18p. includes 13p of notes.) |
| box-folder 195/4336 |
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Campus on a
Hill .[essay]
(Ts, 9p) |
| box-folder 195/4337 |
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Canons .[essay]
(Ts, 20p) |
| box-folder 195/4338 |
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Centers of Power
.[essay]
(Ts, 21p. includes 5p of notes, one symposium program
introducing participants and a copy of Science Newsletter Vol 84, no 23
(1963:Dec 7).) |
| box-folder 195/4339 |
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A Child in the City
.[story]
(Ts. 5p.) |
| box-folder 195/4340 |
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Coming to Terms with Kenneth
Burke .[essay]
(Ts. 7p. includes 5p of notes.) |
| box-folder 195/4341 |
|
Computer Poetry
.[essay]
(Ts, 40p. Includes 12p of general information
concerning symposium at Cornell University on the Computer and
Human Values.) |
| box-folder 195/4342 |
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The Condition
.[essay]
(Ts. 5p.) |
| box-folder 195/4343 |
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Continuousness and Striking
Change: Address to the Trustees and Friends of Bennington
College .[address]
(Ts, 18p. Includes 23p of notes.)
Scope: Also includes TLS, 2p from R.W.B. Lewis to Nemerov (1967:
September 23), TLS, 1p with env. from Jessie Emmet to Nemerov
(1967: October 9), ALS, 3p with env. from Emmet to Nemerov
(1967: November 21), TL(cb), 1p from Nemerov to John (1967:
August 28), TL(cb), 1p from Nemerov to Edward J. Bloustein
(1967: August 28), and TLS, 1p from Bloustein to Nemerov (1967:
August 24).
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| box-folder 195/4344 |
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Diane Arbus eulogy
.[memorial]
(Ts. 2p.) |
| box-folder 196/4345 |
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Digressions Around a Crow
.[story]
(Ts. 11p.) |
| box-folder 196/4346 |
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The Dream of Dante
[essay]
(Ts, 11p) |
| box-folder 196/4347 |
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The Dream of Reason
.[essay]
(Ts. 9p. Two sets of page proofs in
oversize.) |
| box-folder 196/4348 |
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The Dying Garden .
[essay]
(Ts. 2p) |
| box-folder 196/4349 |
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The End of Art .
[lecture]
(Ts. 13p.) |
| box-folder 196/4350 |
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Epilogue
(Ts. 6p.) |
| box-folder 196/4351 |
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Exceptions and Rules:
Commencement address, Lawrence College
.[address]
(Ts, 21p. Includes commencement program.) |
| box-folder 196/4352 |
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Fantasy: Instance from Art
History .[lecture]
(Ts, 1p) |
| box-folder 196/4353 |
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The First County of Places:
Discourse to the PTA on Poetry and Childhood
.[speech]
(Ts, 52p.) |
| box-folder 196/4354 |
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First Lessons of Poetry
.[essay]
(Ts, 2p. includes 2p notes.) |
| box-folder 196/4355 |
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Franz Joseph
Haydn .[essay]
(Ts, 2p) |
| box-folder 196/4356 |
|
Freedom and Form:
Reflections on Dr. Faustus .[essay]
(Ts. 20p. Includes 15p of notes.) |
| box-folder 196/4357 |
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Funeral Service for Alice
Goodman at Graham Chapel, 12 viii 82
[memorial]
(Ts, 2p. Includes Summer's Elegy [poem], To Alice out
of reach [poem] by Nemerov, two eulogies by others, funeral
program and a letter.) |
| box-folder 196/4358 |
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Henry Adams and the
Degradation of the Democratic Dogma [essay]
(Ts, 18p) |
| box-folder 196/4359 |
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HN, Science and
Stories [lecture]
(Ts, 47p) |
| box-folder 196/4360 |
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The Idea of a University
.[fable]
(Ts(cb). 4p. Includes 2p of notes.) |
| box-folder 196/4361 |
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Ignorance .
[essay]
(Ts. 2p. Includes 5p of notes.) |
| box-folder 196/4362 |
|
An Intellectual Comedy (on
Henry Adam's Degradation of the Democratic
Dogman) .[essay]
(Ts. 23p.) |
| box-folder 196/4363 |
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An Introduction to Poetry
.[lecture]
(Ts. 14p.) |
| box-folder 196/4364 |
|
Kenneth Burke Celebration at
Seton Hall University .[speech]
(Ts. 3p.) |
| box-folder 196/4365 |
|
King Lear, act Five, Scene
Two, Proustified and Moncrieffed .[essay]
(Ts. 4p.) |
| box-folder 196/4366 |
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Knowledge, Form and
Style .[essay]
(Ts, 13p) |
| box-folder 196/4367 |
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Lecture to Hallmark Cards
Staff .[lecture]
(Ts. 6p.) |
| box-folder 197/4368 |
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Lewis Thomas, Montaigne and
Human Happiness .[tribute]
(Ts. 34p. Includes 5p of notes, 3 brief notes of
appreciation for the lecture, copy of Washington University Magazine Vol 51, no
1 (1980:December), in which lecture appeared, a 1p reflection on
Lewis Thomas dated 1983:April 28 and a fly-sheet announcement of
lecture, 5 photocopy pages from Lewis Thomas's Lives of a Cell and 2 photocopy pages
from Thomas's The Medusa and the
Snail.) |
| box-folder 197/4369 |
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The Little Book
.[fable]
(Ts. 2p.) |
| box-folder 197/4370 |
|
A Little Myth About the
English Department .[essay]
(Ts. 2p.) |
| box-folder 197/4371 |
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Loren Eiseley
.[memorial]
(Ts, 6p. Includes 6 pp of notes.)
Scope: Also includes ALS, 2p with env. from Mabel Eiseley to Nemerov
(1975: May 11).
|
| box-folder 197/4372 |
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Magic in Poetry
.[essay]
(Ts. 2p.) |
| box-folder 197/4373 |
|
Magic Mountain
.[essay]
(Ts. 42p. Includes 22 pp of notes. Also includes 5
undated letters to Nemerov from unidentified "S.M.".) |
| box-folder 197/4374 |
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Meditation: The
City .[essay]
(Ts. 1p) |
| box-folder 197/4375 |
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Memorial to Archibald
MacLeish .[memorial]
(Ts, 6p.) |
| box-folder 197/4376 |
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Modern Poetry
.[essay]
(Ts. 1p. Includes 9p of notes.) |
| box-folder 197/4377 |
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Names and Natives
.[essay]
(Ts. 2p. Includes 14p of notes.) |
| box-folder 197/4378 |
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The Needle's Eye
.[essay]
(Ts. 6p.) |
| box-folder 197/4379 |
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Neruda's ARS POETICA
.[address]
(Ts. 3p.) |
| box-folder 197/4380 |
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A Note About Concrete
Representation and the Fairview School of Aperiodic Art
.[notes]
(Ts. 5p.) |
| box-folder 197/4381 |
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Notes on Some Intellectual
Consequences of the Freudian Psychology
.[notes]
(Ts. 8p.) |
| box-folder 197/4382 |
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Obliviscendum: An Ancient to
Ancients .[essay]
(Ts. 8p. Includes 3p of notes.) |
| box-folder 197/4383 |
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The Oedipus Situation
.[essay]
(Ts. 8p. Includes 8p of notes.) |
| box-folder 197/4384 |
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On Being Asked for a Peace
Poem .[article]
(Ts, 2p) |
| box-folder 197/4385 |
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On Going Down in History
.[article]
(Ts, 15p. Includes 3p of notes.) |
| box-folder 197/4386 |
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On Having an Idea
.[essay]
(Ts. 3p. Includes 2p of notes.) |
| box-folder 197/4387 |
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On Poetry and Painting, With
a Thought of Music .[essay]
(Ts, 4p.) |
| box-folder 197/4388 |
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On the Difficulty of
Difficult Poetry .[essay]
(Ts. 10p.) |
| box-folder 197/4389 |
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On the Measure of Poetry
.[essay]
(Ts. 20p.) |
| box-folder 197/4390 |
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On the Poetry of Reed
Whittemore .[essay]
(Ts. 11p.) |
| box-folder 198/4391 |
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On the Resemblances Between
Science and Religion .[essay]
(Ts. 11p.) |
| box-folder 198/4392 |
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One Last Midrash
.[essay]
(Ts. 2p.) |
| box-folder 198/4393 |
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The Orlando Furioso Memorial
Lecture for 1950 .[memorial]
(Ts. 2p.) |
| box-folder 198/4394 |
|
The Outrage
.[fable]
(Ts. 4p.) |
| box-folder 198/4395 |
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Paul Feeley Eulogy
.[eulogy]
(Ts. 2p.) |
| box-folder 198/4396 |
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The Poet and the Public
.[essay]
(Ts. 4p.) |
| box-folder 198/4397 |
|
Poetry .[essay]
(Ts, 90p and offprint)
Scope: Collier's Encyclopedia article.
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| box-folder 198/4398 |
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Poetry and Dreams .
[essay]
(Ts, 16p. Includes 8p of notes, carbon of essay with
comments by an unidentified person and a copy of Howard's dream
[poem] by Nemerov.) |
| box-folder 198/4399 |
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Poetry and History
.[essay]
(Ts. 22p. Includes 22p of notes.) |
| box-folder 198/4400 |
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Poetry and Meaning
.[essay]
(Ts, 32p. Includes 58p of notes.) |
| box-folder 198/4401 |
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Poetry and Platitude, A
Commencement Address .[speech]
(Ts. 3p) |
| box-folder 198/4402 |
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Poetry and the National
Conscience .[essay]
(Ts. 16p.)
Scope: Includes TLS, 2p from Roderick Jellema to Nemerov (1970:
March 18).
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The Poetry of Miller
Williams .[foreword]
(Ts. 2p) |
| box-folder 198/4404 |
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The Poetry of
Time .[essay]
(Ts. 8p) |
| box-folder 198/4405 |
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The Poetry of Weldon Kees:
An Appreciation . [review]
(Ts. 9p.)
Scope: Includes ALS, 1p with encl. from Reed Whittemore to Nemerov
(n.d.: February 2).
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Poetry, Prophecy,
Prediction .[essay]
(Ts. 24p) |
| box-folder 199/4407 |
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Post-Dispatch .[essay]
(Ts. 23p)
Scope: Includes TLS, 1p with env. from Evarts A. Graham to Nemerov
(1978: October 16) and TLS, 1p from Graham to Nemerov (1978:
September 8).
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| box-folder 199/4408 |
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Preface to the Concise
Encyclopedia of English and American Poets and
Poetry .[preface]
(Ts. 5p) |
| box-folder 199/4409 |
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Preface to the Poetic
Diction by Owen Barfield .[preface]
(Ts. 13p)
Scope: Includes TLS, 1p from Willard A. Lockwood to Nemerov (1963:
November 22).
|
| box-folder 199/4410 |
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Project Babel
.[fable]
(Ts, 8p.) |
| box-folder 199/4411 |
|
The Quester Hero: Thomas
Mann .[essay]
(Ts. 58p.) |
| box-folder 199/4412 |
|
Quidnunc the Poet and Mr.
Gigadibs .[essay]
(Ts, 11p.) |
| box-folder 199/4413 |
|
Reader's Guide to Thomas
Mann .[essay]
(Ts. 20p. consists of complete version of only Chp 1,
"Themes and methods: the early stories." Includes 115 pp of
notes, mss selections and outlines.) |
| box-folder 199/4414 |
|
Rejoining the Common
Reader .[foreword]
(Ts. 9p) |
| box-folder 199/4415 |
|
Remarks to the Creative
Writing Class at the End of Term .[lecture]
(Ts. 2p.) |
| box-folder 199/4416 |
|
Report of the Consultant in
Poetry .[essay]
(Ts. 4p.) |
| box-folder 199/4417 |
|
Rilke .[foreword]
(Ts. 29p.) |
| box-folder 199/4418 |
|
Robert Burns: An Address to
the Burns Society of St. Louis On the Poets Birthday
.[address]
(Ts. 17p.) |
| box-folder 199/4419 |
|
Romanticism: Sic et
Non .[lecture]
(Ts. 58p) |
| box-folder 199/4420 |
|
Runes .[essay]
(Ts. 1p) |
| box-folder 200/4421 |
|
Science and the
Arts .[essay]
(Ts. 7p. Includes 17 pp of notes and mss
materials.) |
| box-folder 200/4422 |
|
Seeing and Saying
.[essay]
(Ts. 2p.) |
| box-folder 200/4423 |
|
A Sequel--Creativity--What
Is It .[address]
(Ts. 33p.) |
| box-folder 200/4424 |
|
Sequel to Computer Poetry
.[address]
(Ts. 8p.) |
| box-folder 200/4425 |
|
Should Poetry Achieve
Statehood .[address]
(Ts, 9p. Includes 10 pp of notes.) |
| box-folder 200/4426 |
|
Sin()bad .[essay]
(Ts, 9p) |
| box-folder 200/4427 |
|
Smoking and Death
.[essay]
(Ts. 4p.) |
| box-folder 200/4428 |
|
Some Happy Simplicities
About Language and Poetry .[essay]
(Ts, 2p.) |
| box-folder 200/4429 |
|
The Sorcerer's Eye
.[fable]
(Ts. 6p. Includes 2p of mss materials, 2p of notes and
3 newspaper clippings.) |
| box-folder 200/4430 |
|
Spare
Teacher .[note]
(Ts. 1p) |
| box-folder 200/4431 |
|
Speaking's Silence
.[essay]
(Ts. 12p.) |
| box-folder 200/4432 |
|
Speculation Turning to
Itself .[essay]
(Ts. 17p. Includes 3p of notes.) |
| box-folder 200/4433.1 |
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Speculative Equations:
Poems, Poets and Computers .[essay]
(Ts. 24p. Includes 13p of notes) |
| box-folder 200/4433.2 |
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The Swaying Form
.[essay]
(Ts. 14p.) |
| box-folder 200/4434 |
|
The Sweeper of Ways
.[essay]
(Ts. 6p.) |
| box-folder 200/4435 |
|
Thirteen Ways of Looking at
a Skylark .[essay]
(Ts. 26p.) |
| box-folder 200/4436 |
|
Thomas
Mann .[essay]
(Ts, 10p.) |
| box-folder 200/4437 |
|
Thoughts on the Situation of
Poetry, 1964 .[essay]
(Ts. 3p.) |
| box-folder 200/4438 |
|
T.S. Eliot Centennial at
Washington University, 30 ix 88 [lecture]
(Ts, 6p) |
| box-folder 201/4439 |
|
Twelve and the One
.[fable]
(Ts. 3p.) |
| box-folder 201/4440 |
|
The Twilight of the Double
Vision: Thoughts About Parody .[essay]
(Ts. 4p. Includes 2p of notes.) |
| box-folder 201/4441 |
|
Two Ways of Imagination:
Lecture on Wordsworth and Blake .[essay]
(Ts. 2 drafts, 30p. Includes 28p of notes and mss
materials.) |
| box-folder 201/4442 |
|
Understanding as Illusion:
Thoughts About Physics and Poetry .[essay]
(Ts. 2p.) |
| box-folder 201/4443 |
|
Untitled
lectures
(Ts. 83p.) |
| box-folder 201/4444 |
|
What Does the Consultant in
Poetry Do? .[essay]
(Ts. 8p.) |
| box-folder 201/4445 |
|
What Was Modern
Poetry .[essay]
(Ts). 11p. Includes 12 pp of notes and mss
materials.) |
| box-folder 201/4446 |
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What Will Suffice
.[lecture]
(Ts. 10p.) |
| box-folder 201/4447 |
|
What's the Matter with
Essays Called What's the Matter with Poetry ("answer to Karl
Shapiro") .[essay]
(Ts. 4p.) |
| box-folder 201/4448 |
|
Why We Need Poetry
.[lecture]
(Ts. 28p.) |
| box-folder 201/4449 |
|
William Butler Yeats
.[essay]
(Ts, 9p.) |
| box-folder 201/4450 |
|
The Winter Addresses of
Kenneth Burke .[essay]
(Ts, 8p.) |
| box-folder 201/4451 |
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A Winter Passage
.[story]
(Ts. 1p. Includes 2p of notes.) |
| box-folder 201/4452 |
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The Wizard of Misery and
Happiness . [story]
(Ts, 1p) |
| box-folder 201/4453 |
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World of Poetry .
[essay]
(Ts, 2p) |
| box-folder 201/4454 |
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Writers as Intellectuals
.[essay]
(Ts. 18p.) |
| box-folder 202/4455-4478 |
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III.2 Work from Harvard
Scope: Consists of prose written while Nemerov was at Harvard,
1938-1942.
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| box-folder 202/4455 |
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The Black Notebooks
(17p) |
| box-folder 202/4456 |
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Eidolon: Study in the Dream-Work of the
Image
(9p) |
| box-folder 202/4457 |
|
The Element of Order: A Study of the Divine Comedy in
Contemporary Verse, with Particular Reference to T.S.
Eliot
(29p) |
| box-folder 202/4458 |
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The Gentleman Poets
(9p) |
| box-folder 202/4459 |
|
Idea of God: The Absolute, Divine Personality and
Self-Limitation
(3p) |
| box-folder 202/4460 |
|
John Dryden: The Measure of Satire and the Art of
Translation
(2p) |
| box-folder 202/4461 |
|
Judas the Obscure
(14p) |
| box-folder 202/4462 |
|
"Mr. Simon leaned back in his chair..."
(13p) |
| box-folder 202/4463 |
|
The Nature of the Relevant: Notes on Zen Buddhism and
the Western Mind
(10p) |
| box-folder 202/4464 |
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A Note on Dryden's Aesthetic
(2p) |
| box-folder 202/4465 |
|
Of the Manner of Mimicry
(2p) |
| box-folder 202/4466 |
|
Parable of the Times
(4p) |
| box-folder 202/4467 |
|
The Phylogenetic Relation Between Myth, Dream, and
Family Situations
(2p) |
| box-folder 202/4468 |
|
Saint Thomas Aquinas
(29p) |
| box-folder 202/4469 |
|
The Sampling of the Grail
(2p) |
| box-folder 202/4470 |
|
Several Notes on John Dryden
(15p) |
| box-folder 202/4471 |
|
"'The spring came like a clock to a fixed
hour..."
(2p) |
| box-folder 202/4472 |
|
Symbol and System in Poetry
(10p) |
| box-folder 202/4473 |
|
Tenant, Philosophical Theology, Cap VIII, Thought and
Reason
(4p) |
| box-folder 202/4474 |
|
Thomas Mann: A Faustian Pilgrimage
(3p) |
| box-folder 202/4475 |
|
The Use of Fantasy: A Study in the Ambivalent
Strategies of Myth and Dream
(41p) |
| box-folder 202/4476 |
|
"The work is fragmentary..."
(4p) |
| box-folder 202/4477 |
|
The World-Tree
(14p) |
| box-folder 202/4478 |
|
The World's Epitome: A Study in the Works of
Donne
(16p) |
| box-folder 202/4479-4487 |
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III.3 Introductions
Scope: Consists of introductions for Weldon Kees, William Meredith,
Marianne Moore, Robert Pinsky, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Mona Van Duyn,
T.H. White, Reed Whittemore, and Washington: A University
Portrait.
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| box-folder 203/4488-4518 |
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III.4 Reviews
Scope: Consists of reviews by Nemerov of works by Robert Penn Warren,
Conrad Aiken, Owen Barfield, Jean Burden, Truman Capote, T.S.
Eliot, Randall Jarrell, Vladimir Nabokov, Stephen Spender and
others.
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| box-folder 203/4488 |
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Aiken, Conrad Ushant |
| box-folder 203/4489 |
|
Barfield, Owen Worlds
Apart |
| box-folder 203/4490 |
|
Belitt, Ben The Enemy Joy; New
and Selected Poems |
| box-folder 203/4491 |
|
Berg, Stephen and Robert Mezey, ed. Naked Poetry |
| box-folder 203/4492 |
|
Blackmur, R.P. The Expense of
Greatness |
| box-folder 203/4493 |
|
Bloom, Harold The Anxiety of
Influence and Denis Donoghue Thieves of Fire |
| box-folder 203/4494 |
|
Burden, Jean Walk Into
Time |
| box-folder 203/4495 |
|
Capote, Truman By the Later John
Brockman |
| box-folder 203/4496 |
|
Eliot, T.S. Collected Poems
1909-1962 |
| box-folder 203/4497 |
|
Ellis, A.E. The Rack ,
Herbert Gold The Optimist , H.L.
Humes Men Die , Alan Sillitoe Saturday Night and Sunday Morning , and
Robert Penn Warren The
Cave |
| box-folder 203/4498 |
|
Gardner, Helen The New Oxford
Book of English Verse, 1250-1950 |
| box-folder 203/4499 |
|
Hecht, Anthony The Transparent
Man; The Collected Earlier Poems |
| box-folder 203/4500 |
|
Jarrell, Randall The Complete
Poems |
| box-folder 203/4501 |
|
Justice, Donald The Summer
Anniversaries |
| box-folder 203/4502 |
|
Kiefer, Rita Doing
Time |
| box-folder 203/4503 |
|
Mann, James The
Crux |
| box-folder 203/4504 |
|
Mathews, Harry The
Conversions |
| box-folder 203/4505 |
|
Miller, Michael Changing
Bodies |
| box-folder 203/4506 |
|
Nabokov, Vladimir Pale
Fire |
| box-folder 203/4506 |
|
Nabokov, Vladimir Poems and
Problems |
| box-folder 203/4507 |
|
Osbey, Brenda Marie In These
Houses |
| box-folder 203/4508 |
|
Raine, Kathleen The Lost
Country |
| box-folder 203/4509 |
|
Renkl, Margaret Small
Comforts |
| box-folder 203/4510 |
|
Rogers, Del Marie The Real
World |
| box-folder 203/4511 |
|
Saint-John Perse The Golden
Compass Needle |
| box-folder 203/4512 |
|
Seay, James Part of a
Story |
| box-folder 203/4513 |
|
Shapiro, Karl The Younger
Son |
| box-folder 203/4514 |
|
Spender, Stephen Auden, A
Tribute |
| box-folder 203/4515 |
|
Stuart, Dabney I Can't Live
Without You |
| box-folder 203/4516 |
|
Sze, Mai Mai The Tao of
Painting |
| box-folder 203/4517 |
|
Turco, Lewis The Shifting
Web
Scope: Filed with Marilyn Nelson Waniek.
|
| box-folder 203/4517 |
|
Waniek, Marilyn Nelson New
Kid |
| box-folder 203/4518 |
|
Zimmer, Paul The Great Bird of
Love |
| box-folder 204/4519-4522 |
|
III.5 Miscellaneous Prose Pieces
Scope: Consists of partial prose pieces.
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| box-folder 204/4523 |
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III.6 Recommendations
Scope: Includes some correspondence.
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| box-folder 204/4524 |
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III.7 John Pauker/Howard Nemerov
Manuscripts
Scope: Includes manuscripts possibly written by John Pauker or Howard
Nemerov.
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