Summary
Overview
Morgan, Frederick, 1922-
.
1863-2009 (mostly 1947-2006)
250.8 linear feet, 335 archival boxes, 116 record center
cartons
This collection is stored at Firestone Library, ReCAP and Firestone Library.
This collection is stored partially onsite (boxes 1-135, 209-237,
277-395, 428-445A, 464-469) at Firestone Library and partially offsite (boxes
136-208, 238-276, 396-427, 446-463) at the ReCAP facility. Restricted material in box 46, folders 6-11
is stored in special vault facilities.
Requests will be delivered to Manuscripts Division, RBSC Reading Room
.
Princeton University. Library. Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections
Manuscripts Division
One Washington Road
Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA
Abstract
Consists of the records of The Hudson Review, one
of the most notable and influential American literary quarterlies of the post-World
War II era. Reflecting the history of this New York City-based magazine, the bulk of
material dates from 1947 to 2006. In addition, there are extensive personal and
family papers of founding editor Frederick Morgan (1922-2004), who was also a
published poet and translator.
Description
Description
These archives contain the records of The Hudson
Review, one of the most notable and influential American literary
quarterlies of the post-World War II era. Reflecting the history of this New
York City-based magazine, the bulk of material dates from 1947 to 2006. In
addition, these archives contain the personal papers of founding editor
Frederick Morgan (1922-2004), who was also a published poet and translator.
Files include author correspondence, manuscripts, various items reflecting the
editing and production of the magazine (proofs, galleys, advertising and
publicity materials, internal editorial memos), and items related to the Bennett
Award, a literary prize honoring HR founding editor
Joseph Bennett (1922-1972) that was awarded bi-annually from 1976 to 1994. A
special grouping of material (correspondence, typescripts, proofs, printing
plates) related to the modernist poet and critic Ezra Pound and his association
with The Hudson Review is also included. Frederick
Morgan’s personal papers contain correspondence with his friends and family,
drafts and manuscripts of his writings, his personal journals and diaries, files
related to his time as a student, and photographs. Among the numerous prominent
authors, critics, intellectuals, and translators published by The Hudson Review and represented in the files are
Saul Bellow, Isaiah Berlin, Yves Bonnefoy, Kenneth Burke, Hayden Carruth, E. M.
Cioren, T. S . Eliot, Robert Fitzgerald, Northrop Frye, Wyndham Lewis, Robert
Lowell, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Mann, Marianne Moore, Saint-John Perse, Sylvia
Plath, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Allen Tate, William Carlos Williams, and
Yvor Winters.
Collection Creator
Biography
The Hudson Review was co-founded in 1947 by Princeton
graduates Frederick Morgan ’43, Joseph Bennett ’43, and William Arrowsmith ’45. Its
first issue appeared in the spring of 1948 and included an essay by R. P. Blackmur
and poetry by Wallace Stevens and E. E. Cummings. After William Arrowsmith left the
magazine around 1960, and Joseph Bennett gave up his editorial activities in 1966,
Frederick Morgan continued on as editor until his retirement in 1998. Paula Deitz,
who joined The Hudson Review as an assistant editor in
1967, shared editing responsibilities with Morgan (they were married in 1969) until
1998 when she assumed editorship of the magazine. An influential quarterly that
describes itself as a “magazine of literature and the arts,” The Hudson Review has published some the most eminent writers and
critics of the twentieth century. In addition to its substantial record publishing
in the fields of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, The
Hudson Review has published across a wide range of genres and subject
areas including philosophy, cultural anthropology, travel writing, art and design
criticism, memoir, the cultural essay, and music, film, theater, and dance
reviewing. At the time of the writing of this finding aid, The
Hudson Review is still in operation and continues to publish on a
quarterly basis.
Biography of Frederick Morgan
Poet, critic, translator, and editor, [George] Frederick Morgan (1922-2004) was born
in New York City on April 25, 1922. He received his education at St. Bernard’s
School, New York City, St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire, and Princeton
University, from which he graduated in 1943. While studying comparative literature
at Princeton, Morgan was co-editor of the Nassau Literary
Review (also known as the Nassau Lit, and
took creative writing classes with Allen Tate and R. P. Blackmur. Tate, in
particular, would remain an influential figure in Morgan’s artistic and intellectual
life after Princeton. From 1943 to 1945 Morgan served in the Tank Destroyer Corps,
U.S. Army, and was stationed mainly at Fort Hood, Texas. In 1947 he co-founded The Hudson Review, and continued to serve as editor of
the magazine for fifty years, retiring in the spring of 1998. His first book of
poetry, A Book of Change, was published in 1972 (Morgan
was fifty years old) and received a National Book Award nomination. His last
collection, The One Abiding, was published in 2003. He
also edited two anthologies of work originally published in The Hudson Review, and his poetry and translations appeared in numerous
magazines and literary periodicals. Morgan was married three times—to Constance
Canfield, Rose Fillmore, and Paula Deitz—and had six children, all from his first
marriage. In 1985 Morgan was made “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” by the French
government, and in 2001 he was awarded the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American
Poetry. Frederick Morgan died on February 20, 2004.
Bibliography of Frederick Morgan
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A Book of Change (Scribner’s, 1972)
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Poems of the Two Worlds (University of Illinois
Press, 1977)
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The Tarot of Cornelius Agrippa (Sagarin Press,
1978)
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Death Mother and Other Poems (University of
Illinois Press, 1979)
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The River (limited edition, 1980)
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Refraction (Abattoir Editions, 1981)
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Seven Poems by Mallarmé (limited edition, 1981)
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Northbook (Univ. of Illinois Press, 1982)
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Eleven Poems (NADJA, 1983)
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The Fountain and Other Poems (Pterodactyl Press,
1985)
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Poems: New and Selected (University of Illinois
Press, 1987)
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Poems for Paula (Story Line Press, 1995)
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The Night Sky (Story Line Press, 2002)
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The One Abiding (Story Line Press, 2003)
Access and Use
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research use. However, Dana Gioia editorial material
related to his term as an Advisory Editor is sealed for a period of ten years
(through spring 2016).
Access Restrictions
Please consult with Rare Books and Special Collections about having the portion
of the collection at ReCAP recalled to Firestone Library for your use. This
process normally requires 48-72 hours notice.
Use Restrictions
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication
of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University
Library does not own the original. Permission to publish material from the
collection must be requested from the Associate University Librarian for Rare
Books and Special Collections. The library has no information on the status of
literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for
determining any questions of copyright.
Preferred Citation
Hudson Review Archives; 1863-2009 (mostly 1947-2006), Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
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