Finding Aid for the Peter H. Lee Collection of Books and Letters from Wallace Stevens LSC.0146
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Title: Peter H. Lee collection of books and letters from Wallace Stevens
Creator:
Lee, Peter H.
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0146
Physical Description:
0.25 Linear Feet
(1 half box)
Date (inclusive): 1940-1963
Abstract: Collection consists of letters from Wallace Stevens to Peter H. Lee, and books from Lee's collection by Wallace Stevens, T.S.
Eliot, Robert Frost, and Robert Lowell.
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[Identification of item], Peter H. Lee Collection of Books and Letters from Wallace Stevens (Collection 146). UCLA Library
Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Gift of Peter H. Lee, 2005.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9951651213606533
Peter H. Lee (1929-) was born in Seoul, Korea. He received his B.A. from the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota,
and his M.A. from Yale in 1953. Lee went on to study various languages and comparative literatures at universities in Switzerland,
Italy, England and Munich, Germany, where he earned his Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilian University in 1958. After holding positions
at Columbia, Hawaii, and UC Berkeley, Lee came to UCLA in 1987 to begin his distinguished teaching career in the Department
of East Asian Languages and Cultures as a professor of Korean and comparative literature. Professor Lee is an academic pioneer,
credited with single-handedly developing the field of Korean literature, especially in a comparative context, in the West.
He is the author of 16 books and numerous articles.
The collection consists of letters from Wallace Stevens to Peter H. Lee. In early 1951, while Lee was studying at the College
of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, he sent Stevens some poems. A friendship developed between the poet and the young Korean
scholar, resulting in a rich body of correspondence that developed over a period of several years (see George S. Lensing,
Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth, pp.239-240). The 19 letters in this collection contain Stevens' insightful reflections on poetry and scholarship in general,
and document his friendship with Lee. The collection also contains 12 books from Lee's personal collection: seven by Wallace
Stevens (two of which are inscribed to Lee by the author), three by T.S. Eliot, and one each by both Robert Frost and Robert
Lowell. The finding aid includes complete citations for the books; in addition, full catalog records for these books can be
found in the UCLA Library online catalog by performing a keyword search on the phrase "Peter H. Lee collection of books."
Arranged in the following series:
- Books, 1940-1963.
- Letters, 1951-1955.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Literature teachers -- United States -- Archives.
College teachers -- United States -- Archives.
Lee, Peter H., 1929- --Archive
Lee, Peter H., 1929- --Correspondence
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955--C
Series I: Books 1940-1963
All 12 books in this collection have been individually cataloged and shelved. To page an item, locate its catalog record in
the UCLA Library online catalog by performing a keyword search on the phrase "Peter H. Lee collection of books."
- Eliot, T.S. Four quartets. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943.
- Eliot, T.S. The Idea of a Christian Society. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940.
- Eliot, T.S. Notes Towards the Definition of Culture. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949.
- Frost, Robert. Complete Poems of Robert Frost. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1962 (1963 printing).
- Lowell, Robert. Lord Weary's Castle. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946.
- Stevens, Wallace. The Auroras of Autumn. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.
- Stevens, Wallace. The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.
- Stevens, Wallace. Harmonium. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.
- Stevens, Wallace. The Man with the Blue Guitar, Including, Ideas of Order. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1952.
- Stevens, Wallace. Opus Posthumous. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.
- Stevens, Wallace. Parts of a World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951.
- Stevens, Wallace. Transport to Summer. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947.