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Belle Randall collection of Thom Gunn letters, 1960-2006.
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Title:
Belle Randall collection of Thom Gunn letters, 1960-2006Creator/Contributor:
Randall, Belle, creator, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Gunn, Thom, correspondent.Abstract:
Letters to Belle Randall from noted poet, Thom Gunn; with additional papers of Belle Randall. The bulk of the letters date
from the 1960s through Gunn's death in 2004.
Date:
1960 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Randall, Belle -- Archives
Randall, Belle -- Correspondence
Gunn, Thom -- Correspondence
Poets, American -- 20th century
Women poets, American -- 20th century
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Belle Randall collection of Thom Gunn letters, BANC MSS 2008/252, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
In English.
Belle Randall was taught by Gunn as a freshman at UC Berkeley, where she won the Emily Cook Chamberlain Prize in Poetry in
1961 and the Eisner Prize in English in 1966. She was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford in 1969. Randall's MA in creative writing
was earned at Stanford in 1972, her thesis becoming her first published book of poems. She is now a distinguished poet and
teacher in her own right.
Type:
Letters-20th century.Physical Description:
print
1 box (.4 linear feet)
Language:
English