Inventory of the Alan Bacher Williamson Papers D-522
Subjects and Indexing Terms
University of Virginia - tenure decision; etc. 1968-1975
Fellowship applications and correspondence 1971-1990
Job Hunting 1976-1982
Ploughshares - guest editorship correspondence 1980-1981 undated
UC Davis - tenure correspondence 1982 - 1983
Harvard correspondence - proposed long term book 1989 - 1990
"Adam Descending" undated
"Ambivalences in March," "Rot at Solstice" undated
"Autumnal" undated
"Ballad" undated
"Bastards were frequent..." undated
"Before I spoke..." undated
"Births and Deaths" undated
"The Closing of the Aragon Ballroom" undated
"Collage" undated
"Corona" undated
"Easter Morning" undated
"Elegy" undated
"Firenze" undated
"In Memory of Robinson Jeffers" undated
"In the night of dying stars" undated
"Memory and Belief" undated
"Music for Karen's Wedding" undated
"Night Watch" undated
"Now is spun forth...." undated
"Poem," "Inscription in January" undated
"The Renewal" undated
"Restaurant" undated
Rilke translations undated
"The Ruins" undated
"Sacred Vertigo" undated
"Slow / Movements" undated
"Summer" undated
"Thunderhead in August" undated
"To a Discordant Beach" undated
"Le Tombeau d'Arthur Rimbaud" undated
"Walking and Vision" undated
"Wedding Song" undated
"The Winter Loves" undated
"Autumn Clarity" undated
"Beelzebub on the First of September" undated
"The Cripple's House" undated
"Dark of the Moon" undated
"The Dead Bride" undated
"The Death of the Janitor" undated
"The Duelists" undated
"During a Summer Rain" undated
"Good Friday Riding Westward" undated
"Houses in Summer" undated
"Jo and Geoffrey in the Churchyard" undated
"Journey After Illness" undated
"Journeys" undated
"The Judgments of Dawn" undated
"Laurie" undated
"Moulting Weather" undated
"My Grandmother's Death" undated
"Nostalgia (Ungaretti)" undated
"Nympholepsy: Chicago" undated
"Ode to Henry Thoreau" undated
"On the Huron Avenue Bus" undated
"A Premature Elegy for Mr. Auden" undated
"The Rebuildings" undated
"Spring Litany" undated
"Spring Studies 2: The Radios" undated
"Ulro: Night at M.I.T." undated
"Walk Now, and Note the Lover's Death" undated
"All Through the Night" undated
"April 5, 1968" undated
"Aubade, Reconstructed in Tranquility" undated
"Chicago April" undated
"Clara Is A Stained-Glass Window" undated
"A Classroom on the Tenth Floor" undated
"The Confessional (after Baudelaire)" undated
"During First Illness, 1956" undated
"Family Happiness" undated
"A First Night Away From Home" undated
"Frizzled John Dryden" undated
"Hammond Street Twilights" undated
"A Hypothetical Letter" undated
"An Illustration from the Ramayana" undated
"Life After Birth, Sex After Marriage" undated
"Matins in Avignon" undated
"Robert Lowell In Cathedra" undated
"The Second of May" undated
"A Suicide Letter for Gerard de Nerval" undated
"Sunday Hangover in Cambridge" undated
"Tetanus" undated
"313 Founders Hall" undated
"Van Gogh's Asylum" undated
"War in the Valley of Vision: Christmas 1967" undated
"Bernini's Proserpine" undated
"C., Again" undated
"Cambridge 1964" undated
"A Career: Matisse" undated
"Customs of the Barbarians" undated
"Dirty Old Teacher Poem" undated
"Dream Without End" undated
"The First Spring Nights" undated
"Friends Who Have Failed" undated
"The Hotel with a View of the Jungfrau" undated
"If, on Your First Love's Wedding Day" undated
"In the Town Of Springhill, Nova Scotia" undated
"Interior with Seated Woman" undated
"Intruder" undated
"Last Autumn in Charlottesville" undated
"Late Words to C." undated
"Letter from Ravenna" undated
"Mirror-Portrait" undated
"The Mountains" undated
"The Muse of Distance" undated
"A Progress of the Soul" undated
"A Prologue" undated
"The Revolution Comes to Charlottesville, Va." undated
"Secrets" undated
"The Seventies" undated
"Spring Trains" undated
"Temporary Earth" undated
"To Think of Sex in America" undated
"Trois Gymnopedies" undated
"Twelfth Nightand the Power Failure" undated
"Young in New York" undated
Subseries 2.1.5 Other Poems 1960-1977
Muse of Distance - excluded poems undated
Published poems - Post Res Publica - pattern complicated undated
Love and the Soul - rewritings; European poetry - Jeffers some Taylor undated
Muse of Distance - drafts of title poem undated
Prose "Muse of Distance" undated
"Muse of Distance" poems - Pre-California: Freud If There Is; The Trees of the Forest; other poems and drafts 1977
"Love and the Soul": with Paul Breslin's comments undated
MSS - "Epilogue", "Listening to Puccini Again, After a Year", "Love and the Soul" undated
New Poems undated
"The Muse of Distance" - first collected copy undated
"Res Publica" Part II - drafts undated
"Presence" - early versions undated
"Res Publica" - Part I - drafts, tables of contents, friends' critiques undated
"Muse of Distance" - correspondence with Knopf undated
Recitation undated
"Requited Love" and "Travelling in Marriage" undated
Later "Love and the Soul" poems - drafts undated
"Love and the Soul" undated
Newspaper Clippings - story behind poem "Dreams of Sacrifice" 1968
Poetry manuscripts 1960-1962
Poetry manuscripts 1964-1970
"The Marble Lovers" 1966
"A Passion" 1962
"Quetzalcoatl" 1963
Sophomore Class Night Play (Harvard 1962) 1962
"The Attempt" 1961
"Two Days Across the Tracks" 1962
Writing Notebook - Europe (Summer) 1964
1968-1969
Charlottesville 1970-1975
Charlottesville and Europe 1974-1976
Europe and Cambridge 1975-1978
1976-1977
1977-1978
1977-1979
1978-1981
1980-1981
1980-1982
1981
1983 Fall
1984-1985
1984-1985
1985
1985-1986
1986
1986
1986
1986
1986-1987
1986-1988
1987
1987-1988
1987-1989
1988
1988 Summer
1988-1989
1989
1989
1989
late 1980s
late 1980s-early 1990s
1990
1990
1990
1990-1991
1990-1993
1991
1992
1992
1992
1992 Fall
1992 October 17
1992-1993
1993
1995
1995
1995
1995
1995
1996
1996
1996-1998
1997
1997
1997
Hart Crane 1984 undated
Mac Dowell - submission charts 1989
Larkin Essay undated
Lowell - Essay and Memoir undated
Eloquence and "Mere Life" - drafts undated
Pulitzer Prize 1996
Tate Essay and correspondence - articles, notes, and "Language Against Itself" undated
Palfom - Table of Contents undated
Reviews and Essays - Charlottesville years undated
College course papers - undergraduate undated
Graduate School - course papers undated
College High School Essays undated
Play "Cottonwood Leaves" and other High School writings (1958) 1958
Statement for grad poetry workshop, Univ. of Virginia undated
Essay version of "Pity the Monsters" with comments by David Perkins 1966 -1967
Freshman year novel with comments by Isabel Satterthwaite 1961
Fiction Attempts 1960
"Looking for Buddhism in India" - unpublished essay 2004
Pulitzer Prize nominating jury notes 1999
Harvard University Press - correspondence and press clippings on "Introspection and Contemporary Poetry" 1978 - 1985 undated
Background material for "Introspection and Contemporary Poetry" undated
Interview with Gary Snyder for Poetry Foundation undated
Montale Essay and notes from Claire Huffman's class 1977
"The Divided Image" - original draft of Djuna Barnes paper. First published essay and comments by Guy Davenport undated
Translations of French Poet Andre Marissel undated
Reviews 1970 - 1980
American Poetry Review 1975 July 20
Follett Publishing Company 1971 June 30
Gibson, Margaret 1974 February 24
Houghton Mifflin Company 1972 August 5
Houghton Mifflin Company 1974 June 11
Houghton Mifflin Company 1974 June 24
Houghton Mifflin Company 1974 July 7
Houghton Mifflin Company 1975 May 26
Kayak 1975 January 25
Alfred Knopf Inc. 1975 July 25
New Yorker 1971 October 8
New Yorker 1972 January 3
New Yorker 1972 February 20
New Yorker 1974 September 15
Shenandoah 1974 May 10
Tri-Quarterly 1968 September 16
Viking Press 1975 February 24
Yale University Press 1974 April 14
Ackermann, Joan 1975 August 15
American Book Review 1978 September 19
American Poetry Review 1973 November 14
American Poetry Review 1973 December 28
American Poetry Review 1974 January 16
American Poetry Review 1975 July 8
Atlantic Monthly 1965 January 22
Atlantic Monthly 1969 August 27
Atheneum 1974 October 11
Carroll, Paul 1971 November 5
Carroll, Paul 1972 April 6
Chelsea 1968 April 6
Chelsea undated
Critique 1963 October 2
Doubleday 1973 September 7
Doubleday 1973 December 11
Faber and Faber Ltd. 1964 June 24
Falmouth Review of Literature 1967 March 27
Falmouth Review of Literature 1967 May 8
Farrar, Straus Giroux 1971 September 29
Farrar, Straus Giroux 1973 February 23
Farrar, Straus Giroux 1978 July 27
Follett Publishing Company 1971 January 19
Follett Publishing Company 1971 May 4
Follett Publishing Company 1971 August 10
Follett Publishing Company 1971 September 13
Follett Publishing Company 1972 July 27
Gibson, Margaret 1974 February 8
David R. Godine 1972 October 5
David R. Godine 1973 June 5
David R. Godine 1981 June 10
Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1981 November 23
Houghton Mifflin Company 1972 April 13
Houghton Mifflin Company 1972 July 18
Houghton Mifflin Company 1972 September 7
Houghton Mifflin Company 1974 June 3
Houghton Mifflin Company 1974 June 19
Houghton Mifflin Company 1974 June 28
Houghton Mifflin Company 1974 July 10
Houghton Mifflin Company 1974 December 17
Houghton Mifflin Company 1975 July 14
Kayak 1974 December 19
Kayak 1975 June 4
Kenyon Review undated
Alfred A. Knopf Inc. undated
Alfred A. Knopf undated
McCann, Richard 1974 April 20
New American Review undated
New Directions Publishing Corporation 1976 October 6
New Review 1974 June 19
New Yorker 1971 February 23
New Yorker 1971 September 22
New Yorker 1971 October 1
New Yorker 1971 October 15
New Yorker 1971 December 30
New Yorker 1972 January 21
New Yorker 1972 February 15
New Yorker 1972 February 29
New Yorker 1973 September 11
New Yorker 1973 September 21
New Yorker 1974 February 12
New Yorker 1974 December 10
New Yorker 1974 December 19
New Yorker 1975 January 15
New Yorker undated
W.W. Norton Company 1980 July 3
Partisan Review 1972 August 22
Partisan Review 1973 February 1
Poetry 1978 March 30
Poetry 1971 October 1
Poetry 1972 May 11
Poetry 1978 June 12
Poetry 1978 August 2
Poetry 1979 February 2
Poetry 1979 June 20
Poetry undated
Prairie Schooner 1970 October 31
Princeton University Press 1976 January 9
Quarterly Review of Literature 1971 January 26
Quarterly Review of Literature 1974 November 23
Quarterly Review of Literature undated
Quarterly Review of Literature undated
Quest 1967 September 28
Quest 1967 October 25
Sewanee Review 1976 December 9
Sewanee Review 1977 March 2
Shenandoah 1969 November 1
Shenandoah 1969 December 27
Shenandoah 1970 January 7
Shenandoah 1973 September 26
Shenandoah 1973 November 19
Shenandoah 1974 May 15
Shenandoah 1974 July 6
Shenandoah 1974 July 22
Shenandoah 1978 October 24
Tri-Quarterly 1968 June 21
University of Georgia Press 1976 March 23
University of Massachusetts Press 1978 February 16
University of Massachusetts Press 1981 March 6
Viking Press Inc. 1975 March 4
Viking Press Inc. 1975 May 15
Virginia Quarterly Review 1970 April 23
Wesleyan University Press 1972 February 4
Wesleyan University Press 1979 July 6
Yale Review 1971 June 17
Yale University Press 1974 April?
Unidentified undated
Letters from Daniel Albright 1973-1983
Letters from Debra Allbery 1987-2004
Letters from James Atlas 1974-2001
Letters from George Baldessin 1976-1977
Letters from April Bernard 1978-1984
Letters from Frank Bidart 1972-1975
Letters from Yves Bonnefoy 1975
Letters from Paul Breslin 1965-1993
Letters from Kenneth Burke 1969-1972
Letters from Bradford Cook undated
Letter from John Ashbery undated
Letters from Jeff Clark 1994
Letters from Albert Cook 1978-1983
Letters from Alfred Corn 19781990
Letters from Clayton Eshleman 1976-1989
Letters from David Ferry 1993-1995
Letters from Robert Fitzgerald 1975-1981
Letters from Jonathan Galassi 1977-2000
Letters from Courtenay Graham 1970
Letters from Jorie Graham 1988 undated
Letters from Allen Grossman 1982-1986
Letters from Rachel Hadas 1981-1990
Letters from Donald Hall 1980-2006
Letters from Mark Halliday 1981 1989
Letters from Patricia Hampi 1987
Letters from William Harmon 1978-1988
Letters from Brooks Haxton 1997 2001
Letters from Seamus Heaney 1983
Letters from Peter Klappert 1976
Letters from Mary Leader 1990-1997
Letters from John Logan 1981
Letters from Robert Lowell 1969-1973
Letters from Scott McLean 1988-1998
Letters from Andre Marissel 1968-1979
Letters from Jack Marshall 1987-2000
Letters from J.D. McClatchy 1980-1988
Letters from Heather McHugh 1988-1996
Letters from James McMichael 1980-2004
Letters from Sandra McPherson 1983-1984
Letters from Jane Mead 1995-2002
Letter from James Merrill undated
Letters from W.S. Merwin 1998-1999
Letter from John Morgan undated
Letters from Gregory Orr 1978-2001
Letters from David Perkins 1968-2010
Letters from Robert Pinsky 1975-2002
Letter from John Reck 1988
Letters from James Richardson 1984 1988
Letters from Kennith Rosen 1989-1992
Letters from Alfred and Isabel Satterthwaite 1963-1989
Letters from Alan Shapiro 1987 1996
Letters from Robert Shaw 1971-1974
Letters from Charles Simic undated
Letters from Tom Sleigh 1989-2000
Letters from Louis Simpson 1984
Letters from Gary Snyder 1988-2003
Letter from Gary Soto 1984
Letters from Mark Strand 1981 undated
Letters from Jonathan Strong 1981 1983
Letters from Joel Sunderman 1962-1966
Letters from Elizabeth Tallent 1989-1995
Letters from Allen Tate 1976
Letters from Eleanor Ross Taylor 1977-2004
Letters from Peter Taylor 1972-1991
Letters from Imants Tillers 1976-1977
Letters from Richard Tillinghast 1968-2001
Letters from Jean Valentine 1970 - 2000
Letters from Helen Vendler 1997 undated
Letters from Ellen Bryant Voigt 1991 - 1995 undated
Letters from Diane Wakoski 1970 - 1994
Letters from Michael Watterlord 1972 - 1974 undated
Letter from Brom Weber 1984
Letters from Joe Wenderoth 1993 - 1997 undated
Letters from Richard Wertime 1961-2004
Letters from Ruth Whitman 1965 - 1974
Letters from Michele Wyrebek 1991 - 1996 undated
Letters from Stephen Yenser 1993 - 1994
The Book of the Body 1975
"California Plush" 1969
"Dark Night" undated
"Desertion" 1964
"The First Hour of the Night" 1989
"For Mary Ann Youngren" 1980
"Genesis 1-2:4" 1982
Golden State 1969
Golden State 1971 May
Golden State 1971 November
"Guilty of Dust" undated
"In Memoriam John F. Kennedy" undated
"In the Western Night" undated
"Robert Lowell" 1979
"The Sacrifice" 1982
"The Sacrifice" undated
"Temporary Order" 1965
"To the Dead" undated
Untitled late 1960s
"The War of Vaslav Nijinsky" 1980
"At the Pool" undated
"The Chinese Sword" undated
"Good Fences" undated
"The Hills of Soft Oblivion" undated
"On the Outside Looking In" undated
"Peter and the Wolf" undated
"The Return" undated
"Texaco" undated
"A Wool Scarf from London" undated
Richard Tillinghast (poet and Harvard friend) manuscripts, including never published collection of "Home Cooking" 1968-1982 undated
Westernness Interview undated
W.B. Perkins undated
Tim Keegan undated
Mary North 1970-1972, undated
Courtney Graham undated
Paul Breslin 1966-1973, undated
James Atlas: Early Poems 1971-1972
Peter Taylor - "the whistler" undated
Gale Research 1983-2001
Kerney Rhoden undated
Frank Bidart - recent undated
A.W., Reviews of 1974-1988
Francis Glosser 1969, undated
Poetry Search 2002
Schwartz, Richardson er. al. undated
Robert Pinsky 1978-1986, undated
Robert Pinsky 1978-1986. undated
Alan Williamson 1997-2009
Alan Williamson & Gary Snyder Correspondence undated
Michael Watterlond undated
St. Dorothy's Rest Long Poem 1998-2005
"American Poets and the Local Zen" - interview with Chinese Scholar Chung Ling 2001
Notes and Drafts for Westerness: A Meditation undated
Drafts of "The Christian Year" Published in Triquarterly 1998-2000
Drafts of "The Planetarium" published in Michigan Quarterly Review 2005
Res Publica, marketing and reviews of 1998
Notes and Drafts for "Journey to the East" 2004
Notes and Drafts for "St. Dorothy's Rest" unpublished 2000
Drafts of "Empty Sky" published in American Poetry Review 2000-2001
Drafts of Short Poems from Franciscan Notes Typelo Press, forthcoming 2019 undated