SC/03. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Literature Collections
Record Group Term
Identifier: SC/03
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Ben Tibbs Archive
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_tibbs
Abstract
Issues of literary magazines in which Kalamazoo-area poet Ben Tibbs's works were published, list of contents of the original Tibbs book donation and ephemera.
Dates:
1958-1977
Donald Hall Collection
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_hall
Abstract
Articles by or about Donald Hall, copies of poems of Hall published in various journals, copies of book reviews written by Hall, collections of poetry edited by Hall, correspondence.
Dates:
1951-2000; Other: Date acquired: 11/30/2004
Edward Callan Collection: Alan Paton Archive
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_alanpatonarchive
Abstract
Articles, essays, speeches by South African author and anti-apartheid activist Alan Paton collected by Western Michigan University professor Edward Callan. Also contains correspondence between Callan and Alan Paton, as well as Callan and other notable South African anti-apartheid activists, such as Nadine Gordimer and Albert J. Luthuli.
Dates:
1920-2001; bulk 1922-1994; Other: Date acquired: 12/1996
Edward Callan Collection: W.H. Auden Archive
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_audenarchive
Abstract
Articles by or about W.H. Auden collected by Western Michigan University English Professor emeritus Edward Callan, including articles by Callan himself, correspondence, copies of The Griffin (1954-1960), and The Mid-Century Review (1960-1963).
Dates:
1928-1996; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1939-1978; Other: Date acquired: 12/1996
Edward Callan Papers and Miscellaneous Authors Collection
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_callan
Abstract
Articles on James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, research notes, correspondence, sheet music and ephemera.
Dates:
1903-2000; bulk 1958-1992; Other: Date acquired: 12/1996
John Woods Papers
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_woods
Abstract
Personal papers of twentieth century American poet John Woods, including drafts of individual poems and book manuscripts, research materials, academic career files, photographs, cassette tape recordings. Also associated with this collection are 987 books from the poet's personal library, many inscribed by the authors (the books are cataloged separately and searchable through the WMU Libraries online catalog)
Dates:
1948-1996; Majority of material found within Bulk 1950-1992; Other: Date acquired: 07/15/1999
Katherine M. Briggs Collection
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_briggs
Abstract
Papers of British folklorist Katherine M. Briggs (1898-1980). Scholarship on British Isles folklore, Elizabethan and Jacobean literature, children's literature; book, article and play manuscripts and typescripts; correspondence.
Dates:
1805-1980; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1958-1980; Other: Date acquired: 2001
Seamus Cooney Black Sparrow Press Collection
Collection
Identifier: 03-exws_blacksparrow
Abstract
Editorial office records of Blacksparrow Press (1966-2003), as well as a collection of nearly every title published by the press in all of their various editions. The books are all cataloged separately and are searchable via Western Michigan Libraries' online catalog. The archival portion of the collection consists primarily of typescripts for books, editors' copies of manuscripts, first proofs, uncorrected page proofs, corrected page proofs, galley proofs, catalogs, screenplays, prospecti and...
Dates:
1966-2006; Other: Majority of material found within Bulk 1966-1996; Other: Date acquired: 2001-2004