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Size | About 10,000 items (23.0 linear feet) |
Abstract | William Harmon, poet and professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correspondence, writings, and other materials of William Harmon. Included are letters to Harmon from various English and American writings, primarily poets and critics. Also included are letters, writings, a family history, and other materials from Theresa Garrett Eliot, wife of Henry Ware Eliot, T. S. Eliot's brother. Harmon's writings include drafts of The Classic Hundred, A Handbook to Literature , The Top 500 Poems, and other works. There are also manuscript and printed essays and poems. Unintegrated additions contain considerable material relating to Laura (Riding) Jackson, as well as correspondence and writings similar to those in the original collection. Please note that additions received after February 1995 have not been integrated into the original deposits. Researchers should always check additions to be sure they have identified all files of interest to them. |
Creator | Harmon, William, 1938- . |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English. |
Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, Patricia Townsend, Christopher Ryland, and Jackie Dean in March 1996.
Encoded by: Jackie Dean, 1998.
Updated: July 2000, August 2001, and May 2019.
Additions received after February 1995 have not been integrated into the original deposits. Researchers should always check additions to be sure they have identified all files of interest to them.
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
Back to TopThe following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.
Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.
Arrangement: alphabetical.
Correspondence and other materials sent to William Harmon, poet and professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from various English and American writers as listed below. These files include letters, poems, works of fiction, critical essays, and other material related to the correspondent.
The Eli Waldron files, for example, include letters from Waldron, copies of Waldron's many essays and poems, and letters about him after his death. These latter, some of which were written by his wife Marie Waldron, are concerned with the possibility of posthumously publishing Waldron's collected works. Similarly, although the Laura (Riding) Jackson file contains no correspondence from the poet, it does contain information about her death, as well as letters and memos from Theodore Wilentz, RenéVanDeVoorde, Elizabeth Friedmann, Cathie Brettschneider, and others about settling Jackson's literary estate.
Other substantial files include those of George Core, J. F. Nims, Robert Morgan, Cleanth Brooks, Fred Chappell, Michael McFee, Theresa Eliot, and Albert Goldbarth. Miscellaneous and unidentified correspondence is included at the end of this series.
Mostly drafts of works Harmon edited, such as the 6th edition of A Handbook to Literature, The Classic Hundred (formerly The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry), and The Top 500 Poems (formerly the Columbia Book of Poetry). Also included are satirical essays written by Harmon and Louis D. Rubin, Jr. These essays, grouped as "Harmon and Rubin," include material for "The Norton Reader," which was apparently never published, and for the Uneeda Review, which was. Miscellaneous essays are included at the end of this series.
Folder 196-199
Folder 196Folder 197Folder 198Folder 199 |
The Classic Hundred |
Folder 200-222
Folder 200Folder 201Folder 202Folder 203Folder 204Folder 205Folder 206Folder 207Folder 208Folder 209Folder 210Folder 211Folder 212Folder 213Folder 214Folder 215Folder 216Folder 217Folder 218Folder 219Folder 220Folder 221Folder 222 |
A Handbook to Literature |
Folder 223 |
"Harmon and Rubin" |
Folder 224-227
Folder 224Folder 225Folder 226Folder 227 |
The Top 500 Poems |
Folder 228 |
Miscellaneous essays |
Acquistions Information: Accession 96002.
Processing Information: Unintegrated addition. Additions received after February 1995 have not been integrated into the original deposits. Researchers should always check the original listings and each addition to be sure they have identified all files of interest to them.
Folder 391-392
Folder 391Folder 392 |
The Concise Columbia Book of Poetry. |
Folder 393-400
Folder 393Folder 394Folder 395Folder 396Folder 397Folder 398Folder 399Folder 400 |
A Handbook to Literature (6th edition) |
Folder 401-408
Folder 401Folder 402Folder 403Folder 404Folder 405Folder 406Folder 407Folder 408 |
A Handbook to Literature (7th edition) |
Folder 409-410
Folder 409Folder 410 |
Miscellaneous writings |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 98007.
Processing Information: Unintegrated addition. Additions received after February 1995 have not been integrated into the original deposits. Researchers should always check the original listings and each addition to be sure they have identified all files of interest to them.
Folder titles and descriptions of contents are taken, for the most part, from Harmon's "Inventory of Materials Donated to UNC-CH Library, 12/97."
Materials relating to Laura (Riding) Jackson, materials relating to a proposed anthology of poems by Americans born between 1935 and 1945, materials relating to the writing of an article on English versification, and other correspondence and materials. The materials relating to Laura (Riding) Jackson include five versions of Rational Meaning: A New Foundation for the Definition of Words by Laura (Riding) Jackson and Schuyler B. Jackson, textual editing by Anne and William Harmon; correspondence and other material having to do with the business of the Board of Literary Management of the Estate of the Late Laura (Riding) Jackson; and photocopies and typescripts of poems and essays by Laura (Riding) Jackson. Correspondence and other materials include letters, poems, essays, and other material from various English and American writers as listed below.
Box 23 |
Three drafts of Rational Meaning |
Box 24 |
Two drafts of Rational Meaning |
Correspondence relating to Rational Meaning |
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The Board of Literary Management of the Estate of the Late Laura (Riding) JacksonCorrespondents include: Theodore (Ted) Wilentz, publisher and editor; Joan Wilentz; Elizabeth (Peggy) Friedmann, official biographer of Laura (Riding) Jackson; Alan Clark of the Library of the Royal Society, official bibliographer; Jim Tyler, librarian and printer; RenéVanDeVoorde, attorney; Robert Nye, writer; Douglas Messerli of Sun and Moon Press; Jerome McGann of the University of Virginia; and Joel Porté and others of Cornell University |
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Box 25 |
The Board of Literary Management of the Estate of the Late Laura (Riding) Jackson, 1997 and undated |
Photocopies of typescripts of poems and essays by Laura (Riding) Jackson |
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Good Co., 1995Materials related to a proposed anthology of poems by Americans born between 1935 and 1945. Included are letters from James Applewhite, Coleman Barks, Marvin Bell, Fred Chappell, Louise Gluck, Marilyn Hacker, Michael Harper, William Heyen, William Matthews, J. D. McClatchy,Robert Morgan, Grace Schulman, Charles Simic, Dave Smith, Ellen Bryant Voigt, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, Jay Wright (1 folder) |
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CHEPMaterials related to the writing of an article on English versification eventually published in 1997 in Studies in Philology. Correspondents include Percy Adams, Cleanth Brooks, Roberta Frank, Paul Fussell, Donald Kennedy, X. J. Kennedy, Michael McFee, Richard Moore, John Frederick Nims, Patrick O'Neill, Paul Ramsey, Carl Woodring, and G. T. Wright (4 folders). |
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EECMaterials related to E. E. Cummings, including plans for the centennial celebration in October 1994 (1 folder).
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Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-4568/1 |
Autographed poster from literary festival in Jacksonville, Fla., 1992 |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 98741.
Processing Information: Unintegrated addition. Additions received after February 1995 have not been integrated into the original deposits. Researchers should always check the original listings and each addition to be sure they have identified all files of interest to them.
Correspondence, writings, project files, and other materials. Included are correspondence files, as detailed below, which also contain related materials, particularly short writings and poems that were sent to William Harmon by friends, professional colleagues, and students. Also included are Harmon's writings (unorganized) and related materials; a group of files that focus on books Harmon produced for the Columbia University Press, among them The Top 100 Poems, The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, and The Anthology of Anonymous Poems; materials relating to the Handbook to Literature, 5th-8th editions (1986-2000), which Harmon produced with C. Hugh Holman; Laura (Riding) Jackson materials; files relating to The Oxford Book of American Light Verse (1979); and materials relating to Phi Beta Kappa awards, 1998-1999.
Box 26 |
Correspondence and related materials
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Box 27-28
Box 27Box 28 |
Miscellaneous writings and related materials |
Box 28-29
Box 28Box 29 |
Columbia University Press materials |
Box 29-30
Box 29Box 30 |
Handbook to Literature |
Box 30 |
Jackson, Laura (Riding) |
Oxford Book of American Light Verse |
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Phi Beta Kappa Awards |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 101777.
Processing Information: Unintegrated addition. Additions received after February 1995 have not been integrated into the original deposits. Researchers should always check the original listings and each addition to be sure they have identified all files of interest to them.
Box 30 |
T.S. Eliot Society |