T.S. Eliot The varieties of metaphysical poetry typescripts
Overview
Typescript lectures by American-born poet, T. S. Elliot.
Dates
- Creation: 1933
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Any requests to publish Eliot material must be cleared through Faber and Faber’s Permissions Department.
Extent
.25 linear feet (1 box)3 typescript lectures (with autograph manuscript annotations and revisions in pencil), concerning Eliot's definition of metaphysical poetry. 1 typescript includes an autograph note to F. V. M. (Frank Vigor Morley), stating that the lectures are not meant for publication, but that Morley might find the content interesting. Subject of lectures includes both 17th-century English poets, and those of previous poets in France, Italy, and elsewhere, whose work contains some "metaphysicality"; also discusses the works of poets such as John Donne, Dante Alighieri, Richard Crashaw, and others.
Also includes a grey paper folder, with an autograph manuscript note (signed) by Eliot, giving the date of the lectures as January 1933, delivered at Johns Hopkins University as part of the Turnbull Lecture series. These lectures were originally housed in this folder.
Biographical / Historical
T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965) was an American-born poet, dramatist, and critic.
Physical Location
b
Immediate Source of Acquisition
42M-275. Purchased with the Morris Gray Fund; received: 1942 November 22.
Provenance:
Formerly belonged to Frank Vigor Morley.
Processing Information
Processed by: Bonnie B. Salt
- Title
- Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. T. S. Eliot typescripts for The varieties of metaphysical poetry, circa 1933: Guide.
- Author
- Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hou02503
Repository Details
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