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Robert Edward Duncan papers, circa 1938-1969.
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Robert Edward Duncan papers, circa 1938-1969Robert Duncan papers
Creator/Contributor:
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988, creatorCreator/Contributor:
Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Breit, Harvey, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Calas, Nicolas, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Durrell, Lawrence, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Fabilli, Mary, 1914-2011, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Ford, Charles Henri, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Horan, Robert, 1922-, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Kael, Pauline, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Miller, Henry, 1891-1980, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Patchen, Kenneth, 1911-1972, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Riding, Laura, 1901-1991, correspondent.Creator/Contributor:
Sanders, Russell, correspondent.Abstract:
Includes eight notebooks containing drafts of poems, journal entries, prose sketches, writings in early stages, dream fragments,
etc., covering the years 1940-1969; and letters to him, circa 1938-1941, from Harvey Breit, Nicolas Calas, Lawrence Durrell,
Mary Fabilli, Charles Henri Ford, Robert Horan, Pauline Kael, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Kenneth Patchen, Laura Riding and Sanders
Russell.
Date:
1938 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caPoets, American -- California -- 20th century
Beats (Persons) -- Poetry
Beats (Persons) -- California
Poètes américains -- Californie -- 20e siècle
Beatniks -- Poésie
Beatniks -- Californie
Beats (Persons)
Poets, American
California
Duncan, Robert -- 1919-1988 -- Archives
Duncan, Robert -- 1919-1988 -- Correspondence
Breit, Harvey -- Correspondence
Calas, Nicolas -- Correspondence
Durrell, Lawrence -- Correspondence
Fabilli, Mary -- 1914-2011 -- Correspondence
Ford, Charles Henri -- Correspondence
Horan, Robert -- 1922- -- Correspondence
Kael, Pauline -- Correspondence
Miller, Henry -- 1891-1980 -- Correspondence
Nin, Anaïs -- 1903-1977 -- Correspondence
Patchen, Kenneth -- 1911-1972 -- Correspondence
Riding, Laura -- 1901-1991 -- Correspondence
Sanders, Russell -- Correspondence
Breit, Harvey
Calas, Nicolas
Duncan, Robert -- 1919-1988
Durrell, Lawrence
Fabilli, Mary -- 1914-2011
Ford, Charles Henri
Horan, Robert -- 1922-
Kael, Pauline
Miller, Henry -- 1891-1980
Nin, Anaïs -- 1903-1977
Patchen, Kenneth -- 1911-1972
Riding, Laura -- 1901-1991
Note:
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
Notebook 4, 1941 (Box 3, folder 2) : Also available on microfilm with call number BANC FILM 2781.
Pauline Kael, Anaïs Nin, Sanders Russell letters (box 1, folders 10,13,15); notebooks A-C and 1-3 (boxes 2-3) : Also available
on microfilm with call number BANC FILM 3292.
Gift; Of Robert Duncan; 1967.
Robert Duncan (January 7, 1919-February 3, 1988) was an American poet and a student of H.D. and the Western esoteric tradition
who spent most of his career in and around San Francisco. Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools,
Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New American Poetry and Black Mountain College. Duncan's mature work emerged
in the 1950s in the literary context of Beat culture. Duncan was a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance.
Preferred citation: Robert Edward Duncan papers, circa1938-1969, BANC MSS 71/126 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California,
Berkeley.
In English.
Type:
ArchivesPoetry
Personal correspondence
Poems.
Physical Description:
print
3 boxes (0.8 linear feet)
2 microfilm reels : positive and negative.
Language:
English