MARC Record from Library of Congress

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100 1 $aCiardi, John,$d1916-1986.
245 00 $aJohn Ciardi papers,$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," 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.
541 $cGift,$aJohn Ciardi,$d1970.
541 $cGift,$aMyra Ciardi Watts,$d1998.
541 $cGift,$aWayne State University Libraries,$d1999.
541 $cGift,$aMary Lou Harkness,$d2000.
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 on Internet.
600 10 $aAbbe, George,$d1911-1989$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aAdams, Léonie,$d1899-1988$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBasler, Roy P.$q(Roy Prentice),$d1906-1989$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aBenét, Stephen Vincent,$d1898-1943.
600 10 $aBurroughs, William S.,$d1914-1997.$tNaked lunch.
600 10 $aCousins, Norman$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aDobie, J. Frank$q(James Frank),$d1888-1964$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aEberhart, Richard,$d1904-2005.
600 10 $aFitts, Dudley,$d1903-1968$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aFrost, Robert,$d1874-1963$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aHolmes, John Haynes,$d1879-1964.
600 10 $aJaffe, Dan$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKennedy, X. J.$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aKreymborg, Alfred,$d1883-1966$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aMacLeish, Archibald,$d1892-1982.
600 10 $aNims, John Frederick,$d1913-1999$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPack, Robert,$d1929-$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aPratt, Fletcher,$d1897-1956.
600 10 $aRoethke, Theodore,$d1908-1963$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aRukeyser, Muriel,$d1913-1980$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aScott, Winfield Townley,$d1910-1968$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSchwartz, Shloime,$d1907-1988
600 10 $aSloane, William,$d1906-1974$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aSwenson, May$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aTerkel, Studs,$d1912-2008.
600 10 $aThoma, Henry F.$q(Henry Francis)$vCorrespondence.
600 10 $aViereck, Peter,$d1916-2006.
600 10 $aWallace, Henry A.$q(Henry Agard),$d1888-1965.
600 10 $aWilbur, Richard,$d1921-$vCorrespondence.
610 20 $aAlabama Education Association.
610 20 $aAmerican Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
610 20 $aAmerican Academy in Rome.
610 20 $aBates College (Lewiston, Me.)$xStudents.
610 20 $aBread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury College.
610 20 $aCBS Television Network.
610 20 $aCollege English Association.
610 20 $aGarden State Choral Society.
610 20 $aHarvard University$xFaculty.
610 20 $aLibrary of Congress.
610 20 $aNational Public Radio (U.S.)
610 20 $aProgressive Party (U.S. : 1948)
610 20 $aRutgers University$xFaculty.
610 20 $aTufts University$xStudents.
610 20 $aTwayne Publishers.
610 20 $aUniversity of Missouri at Kansas City.$xFaculty.
630 00 $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
852 $aLibrary of Congress$bManuscript Division$eWashington, D.C. 20540 USA$ndcu$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home
856 4 $3Finding aid$uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms003057