This series is arranged chronologically, unless otherwise noted and consists of a translation of Goethe's Elective Affinities, critical essays from other authors' anthologies, critical essays from Bogan's anthologies, critical essays from miscellaneous periodicals, book reviews in the New Yorker, book reviews from unidentified sources, blurbs in the New Yorker, blurbs from unidentified sources, miscellaneous prose writings, miscellaneous notes and fragments, lectures and speeches, and poetry manuscripts, arranged alphabetically by title and followed by Herbert Cahoon's poetry manuscripts.
This series is arranged into thirteen subseries: Translation, Critical Essays From Other Authors' Anthologies, Critical Essays From Bogan's Anthologies, Critical Essays from Miscellaneous Periodicals, Book Reviews in the New Yorker, Book Reviews, Blurbs in the New Yorker, Blurbs [unidentified source], Miscellaneous Prose Writings, Miscellaneous Notes and Fragments, Lectures and Speeches, Poetry Manuscripts, and Poetry by Herbert Cahoon.
Drafts, Essay on Paul Eluard, 1939
Notes, Essay on Paul Eluard, 1939
Notes, Essay on Rilke's Duino Elegies, Translated by J. B. Leishman and Stephen Spender, 1939
Drafts, Essay on Paul Valery, 1939
Drafts, Essay on Goethe, 1949
Notes, Essay on Goethe, 1949
Notes, Essay on Goethe, undated
Notes, "William Butler Yeats", 1938
Draft, "The Situation in American Writing: Seven Questions?," Partisan Review, v. 6, 1939 Fall
Draft, "A Note on 'Jean sans Terre' [by Iwan Goll]," Partisan Review, v. 7, 1940 July-August
Drafts, Notes, Review of New Directions Poets of the Year (1943). New Yorker, v. 19, 1943 August 7
Drafts, Notes, Review of A Poet and Two Painters: A Memoir of D.H. Lawrence, Knud Merrild, 1939
Drafts, Notes, Review of The Blue Flower: Best Stories of the Romantics, ed. Hermann Keston, 1946
Blurbs in the New Yorker, 1938-1947
"Cartography", dates not examined
"Come, Sleep?", dates not examined
"The Daemon", dates not examined
"Gift", dates not examined
"Juan's Song", dates not examined
"Seek out the heartless from the great/and cozen them, and give them tongue", dates not examined
"Zone", dates not examined
Poetry Fragments, dates not examined
Consists of the correspondence of Louise Bogan with individuals such as R. P. Blackmur, Edmund Wilson, and Malcolm Cowley, as well as others.
This series is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
Letter to R. P. Blackmur, undated
Letter from Anita Browne, 1939
Letter to Frederick Dupee, 1939
Letter to C. Fadiman, undated
Letter to Mr. Hawkins, undated
Letter from Philip Rahv, 1947
Letter to Philip Rahv, 1947
Letter to Edmund Wilson, 1940
- Scope and Contents
The collection consists of selected notes, drafts, holograph and typescript manuscripts, and correspondence of Bogan. Included are her translation of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's novel Elective Affinities and a large number of critical essays concerning the works of W. H. Auden, R. P. Blackmur, Elizabeth Bowen, Isak Dinesen, Paul Eluard, Andre Gide, Goethe, Henry James, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Paul Rosenfeld, Paul Valery, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats, and others. Also present are book and poetry reviews for the New Yorker; lectures on poetry; essays on folk art and literary criticism; poems and galley proofs for Poems and New Poems (1941); a small selection of poems by Herbert Cahoon; and correspondence containing some letters from Jerome Mellquist.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Bogan, Louise, 1897-1970
Louise Bogan was born in Livermore Falls, Maine, in 1897. She attended Boston Girls' Latin School and spent one year at Boston University. She married in 1916 and was widowed in 1920. She was married again in 1925 to the poet Raymond Holden whom she divorced in 1937. In addition to publishing six highly acclaimed volumes of poetry and a number of collaborative translations, Bogan wrote and compiled three volumes of literary criticism. Her critical essays appeared in such periodicals as Nation, New Republic, and Partisan Review, and her "Verse" column was published regularly in The New Yorker from 1931-1968. She was reclusive and disliked talking about herself, and for that reason details are scarce regarding her private life. Blue Estuaries: Poems, 1923-1968, is an overview of her life's work in poetry. She died in New York City in 1970.
- Acquisition:
The Bogan collection was given to Princeton University by the author in 1952 .
- Custodial History
The collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection manuscript material of various accessions relating to a particular author.
- Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Margaret Rich in 2003 . Finding aid written by Margaret Rich in 2003 .
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
- Conditions Governing Use
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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- Credit this material:
Louise Bogan Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/5q47rn74f
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (scamss): Box 1-5
- Bibliography
Some of the manuscripts and notes found in draft form in the collection came to print in the following publications: Nation, New Republic, New Yorker, Partisan Review, Atlantic Monthly.
- Subject Terms:
- American poetry -- History and criticism -- 20th century.
German fiction -- Translations into English.
Poets, American -- 20th century.
Women poets, American -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Essays -- 20th century.
Galley Proofs (Printing) -- 20th century.
Poems -- 20th century. - Names:
- Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Blackmur, R. P. (Richard P.), 1904-1965
Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973.
Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962
Éluard, Paul, 1895-1952
Gide, André, 1869-1951 (1869-1951)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von 1749-1832
James, Henry, 1843-1916.
Joyce, James, 1882-1941
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926.
Rosenfeld, Paul, 1890-1946
Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.