Brewster Ghiselin Papers, 1936-1991

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Creator:

Ghiselin, Brewster (1903-2002)

Title:

Brewster Ghiselin Papers

Repository:

Manuscripts Division

Permanent URL:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/8336h191w

Dates:

1936-1991

Size:

3 boxes and 1.5 linear feet

Storage Note:

ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-3

Language:

English

Abstract: Brewster Ghiselin was an English professor, literary critic, editor, and poet. The collection contains some of Ghiselin's works and correspondence. Typescripts, proofs, galleys, Italian translations, phonograph records, a few books, and notes represent his works, while the correspondence consists of letters from his literary friends and colleagues.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of selected correspondence and works of Ghiselin. The correspondence is predominately with Allen Tate and Ellis Foote, but also includes letters from John Ciardi, John Peale Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, John Crowe Ransom, Theodore Roethke, Robert Penn Warren, Thornton Wilder, and others. His works are represented by typescripts, proofs, galleys, Italian translations, phonograph records, and related correspondence for Country of the Minotaur (1970), a book of poetry, and notes and typescripts for "The Burden of Proof," Ghiselin's review of John L. Stewart's The Burden of Time: The Fugitives and Agrarians (1965) for the "Sewanee Review." A heavily annotated copy of the published book is also included.

In addition there is Ghiselin's translation from Italian into English of an article by Francesco Mei entitled "Culture and Technique in Tate," (1970), the typescript of an essay, "The Unliteral Imagination" by Allen Tate, a script for the production of Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men, and numerous poems by Ellis Foote included in his correspondence.

Collection Creator Biography:

Ghiselin

Ghiselin was a professor of English at the University of Utah, a literary critic, editor, and poet.

Collection History

Acquisition:: Purchased from the author in 1993-1994.
Appraisal: No appraisal information is available.

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