Guide to the Norman Foerster Papers M0052
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Norman Foerster Papers
Creator:
Foerster, Norman
Identifier/Call Number: M0052
Identifier/Call Number: 243
Physical Description:
127 item(s)
(1 half-box)
Date (inclusive): ca. 1900-1949
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual materials
are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Norman Foerster, 1963, 1965.
Norman Foerster was an American author and editor. Foerster was also a professor of literature and a proponent of the New
Humanist movement. He was born 14 April 1887 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died 1 August 1972 in Palo Alto, California.
A.B. Harvard: 1910; A.M., University of Wisconsin: 1912; Litt.D., Uuniversity of South: 1931.
University professor and instigator of New Humanist movement in American criticism. As its chief spokesman, he edited its
manifesto Humanism and America (1930). Instructor in English, University of Wisconsin, 1911-1914; associate professor English,
University of North Carolina, 1914-1919, professor, 1919-1930; director School of Letters and professor English, University
of Iowa, 1930-1944; visiting professor English, Duke University, 1948-1949. Author of Outlines and Summaries, Sentences and
Thinking, Nature in American Literature, American Criticism, The American Scholar, Towards Standards, The American State University,
The Future of the Liberal College, The Humanities and the Common Man. Editor of Essays for College Men, Selected Literary
Essays from James Russell Lowell, Chief American Prose Writers, American Ideals, English poetry of the 19th century, American
Poetry and Prose, Humanism and America, and American Critical Essays.
Page from catalog record https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4082957
[Identification of item] Norman Foerster Papers, M0052, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Letters and literary manuscripts from poets and political and scientific figures whose writings were to be published in anthologies
edited by Foerster. Some letters pertain to the creative writing program at the University of Iowa. Correspondents include
Stephen Vincent Benet, T. S. Eliot, Paul Engle, Robert Frost, and Paul Green. Includes photographs of John Burroughs, Floyd
Dell, G.K. Kittredge, and Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
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Stanford Libraries also holds the following related collections:
M0173: Norman Foerster papers addenda, 1918-1940
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4082911
M0183: Norman Foerster papers addenda, 1907-1965
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4082998
M00251: Norman Foerster papers addenda, 1837-1970
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4083169
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Authors
Editors
Box 1, Item 44
Box 1, Item 45
Miscellaneous Autographs 118229