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Title: | Latimer, Ronald Lane. Papers |
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Dates: | 1926-1938 |
Size: | 0.25 linear feet (1 box) |
Repository: |
Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center |
Abstract: | Ronald Lane Latimer, editor and publisher of modern poetry. The papers contain correspondence from authors including: EE. Cummings, Ford Madox Ford, John Peale Bishop, Erskine Caldwell, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams and particularly Wallace Stevens. |
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Ronald Lane Latimer was an editor and publisher of modern poetry known particularly for his signed, limited editions of contemporary American poets under "The Alcestis Press" imprint. The Alcestis Press of New York was a publishing venture which in 1935 and 1936 issued several volumes of modern poetry beautifully printed on rag paper, some of them bound in parchment and boxed. Latimer backed the press as an experiment in fine printing while he was editor of Alcestis, a poetry quarterly which existed briefly from October, 1934, until July, 1935. He had edited two other periodicals under the name James G. Leippert: The New Broom and Morningside (January-April, The1932) and The Lion and Crown (Fall, 1932-Winter 1933?).
The collections contains correspondence from authors including e.e. cummings, Ford Madox Ford, John Peale Bishop, Erskine Caldwell, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens.
Most notable among the manuscripts are the letters of the poet, Wallace Stevens, which date from the period when Latimer was publishing the Alcestis editions of his and other American poets' works. Their correspondence was mainly concerned with the problems of the writing and publishing of Ideas of Order and Owl's Clover. Although Stevens did not mean for his letters to be considered anything more than just that, any student of his poetry will find them illuminating and helpful when read in conjunction with the poems themselves. The content of the Stevens' letters is poetic criticism of a natural and spontaneous kind.
Series I: General Correspondence
Series II: John Peale Bishop
Series III: R.P. Blackmur
Series IV: Erskine Caldwell
Series V: S. Foster Damon
Series VI: John Gould Fletcher
Series VII: James Laughlin
Series VIII: Archibald Macleish
Series IX: Willard Maas
Series X: Marianne Moore
Series XI: Ezra Pound
Series XII: Wallace Stevens
Series XIII: Allen Tate
Series XIV: Robert Penn Warren
Series XV: William Carlos Williams
Series I: Correspondence General |
Box 1 Folder 1 | A-C
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Box 1 Folder 2 | D-L
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Box 1 Folder 3 | M
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Box 1 Folder 4 | N-R
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Box 1 Folder 5 | U-Z
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Series II: John Peale Bishop |
Box 1 Folder 6 | Correspondence and Poetry
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Series III: R.P. Blackmur |
Box 1 Folder 7 | Correspondence and Poetry
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Series IV: Erskine Caldwell |
Box 1 Folder 8 | Correspondence
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Series V: S. Foster Damon |
Box 1 Folder 9 | Correspondence
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Series VI: Correspondence- John Gould Fletcher |
Box 1 Folder 10 | Correspondence
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Series VII: Correspondence- James Laughlin |
Box 1 Folder 11 | Correspondence and Poetry
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Series VIII: Archibald McLeish |
Box 1 Folder 12 | Correspondence and Poetry
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Series IX: Willard Maas |
Box 1 Folder 13 | Correspondence
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Series X: Marianne Moore |
Box 1 Folder 14 | Correspondence
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Series II: Ezra Pound |
All letters have interpolations and/or corrections in Pound's hand.
Box 1 Folder 15 | Correspondence and Articles
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Series XII: Wallace Stevens |
Box 1 Folder 16 | Correspondence and Poetry
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Box 1 Folder 17 | Correspondence
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Box 1 Folder 18 | Correspondence and Poetry
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Series XIII: Allen Tate |
Box 1 Folder 19 | Correspondence
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Series XIV: Robert Penn Warren |
Box 1 Folder 20 | Correspondence
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Series XV: William Carlos Williams |
Box 1 Folder 21 | Correspondence and Poetry
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