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Guide to the Poetry: a Magazine of Verse Records 1895-1961 University of Chicago Library Guide to the Poetry: A Magazine of Verse Records 1895-1961 © 2007 University of Chicago Library Table of Contents Descriptive Summary 4 Information on Use 4 Access 4 Citation 4 Historical Note 4 Scope Note 6 Related Resources 7 Subject Headings 7 INVENTORY 7 Series I: Administrative Files, 1912-1936 7 Subseries 1: General Manuscripts 8 Subseries 2: Major Poets 66 Subseries 3: Addenda 92 Sub-subseries 1: Biographies 92 Sub-subseries 2: Guarantors 120 Sub-subseries 3: Business Correspondence 122 Sub-subseries 4: Circulars, Etc. 123 Sub-subseries 5: Mila Straub and Harriet Monroe, Correspondence, Photographs,123 Reprints Sub-subseries 6: Clippings 126 Series II: Administrative Files, 1936-1953 128 Subseries 1: Manuscripts - Major Contributors 129 Subseries 2: Manuscripts - Minor Contributors 156 Subseries 3: Editorial Files 213 Sub-subseries 1: Correspondence, Notes, and Mockups 213 Sub-subseries 2: Galleys 227 Subseries 4: Business Files 239 Sub-subseries 1: Fund Raising 239 Sub-subseries 2: Publishers and Advertising Agencies 240 Sub-subseries 3: Other Organizations (Literary Societies, Periodicals, etc.) 241 Sub-subseries 4: Distribution and Miscellaneous Business 243 Sub-subseries 5: Projects, Prizes and Personnel 244 Series III: Administrative Files, 1954-1961 246 Subseries 1: Contributors -- Manuscripts and Correspondence 247 Subseries 2: Business Records and Correspondence 366 Subseries 3: Publication Matter 377 Series IV: Oversize 391 Subseries 1: Administrative Files, 1912-1936 391 Sub-subseries 1: General Manuscripts 391 Sub-subseries 2: Major Poets 393 Sub-subseries 3: Addenda 394 Subseries 2: Administrative Files, 1936-1953 396 Sub-subseries 1: Manuscripts - Major Contributors 396 Sub-subseries 2: Manuscripts - Minor Contributors 398 Sub-subseries 3: Editorial Files 398 Sub-subseries 4: Business Files 399 Subseries 3: Administrative Files, 1954-1961 399 Sub-subseries 1: Contributors - Manuscripts and Correspondence 399 Sub-subseries 2: Publication Matter 426 Sub-subseries 3: Miscellaneous 426 Descriptive Summary Identifier ICU.SPCL.POETRY Title Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Records Date 1895-1961 Size 100 linear feet (174 boxes) Repository Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A. Abstract Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1912 by Harriet Monroe. The collection contains the administrative records of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse from its founding in 1912 to 1961, and documents not only the history of the magazine, but also the development of English-language verse in the first half of the twentieth century. The administrative files include correspondence, poetry, articles and reviews sent to and compiled by each editor of the magazine. Also included are a smaller number of business and editorial files, containing financial and fund raising records, literary prizes, author biographies, clippings and other items documenting the operation of the magazine. Information on Use Access No restrictions. Citation When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. Records, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Historical Note Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded in 1912 by Chicago poet Harriet Monroe. Taking Whitman's line, "To have great poets there must be great audiences too" as her motto, Monroe sought to cultivate a wide readership for new writing and ideas. By insisting on paying all contributors and establishing an annual prize, Poetry magazine raised the visibility and status of poetry. The journal published and promoted the careers of a galaxy of poets who came to define twentieth century modernism, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, and Langston Hughes, among many others. 4 Poetry transformed the way that poetry and poets are recognized and read worldwide, and it continues to flourish as a major cultural influence. Monroe funded the early publication of Poetry with subscriptions and contributions from wealthy Chicago patrons. As editor, she shepherded the magazine through into its third decade. Following Monroe’s death in 1936, editorship passed to Morton Dauwen Zabel (1936-1937), followed by George Dillon (1937-1949), Hayden Carruth (acting editor, 1949), Karl Shapiro (1950-1954) and Henry Rago (1955-1969). In 1931, Harriet Monroe presented her poetry library, her personal papers, and the editorial files of Poetry magazine to the University of Chicago. Following her death, the Monroe library and Poetry archives were received as a bequest and installed in a specially designated room in Wieboldt Hall, the modern languages building on the campus of the University of Chicago. The Modern Poetry Library room provided book shelves for the poetry collection, display cases for the letters and manuscripts of notable poets in the Poetry archives, and equipment for listening to recordings of poets reading their works. The formal opening of the Harriet Monroe Library of Modern Poetry was marked by a festive dinner of the University of Chicago Friends of the Library on May 24, 1938. Guest speakers paying tribute to Harriet Monroe's achievements included Carl Sandburg, Archibald MacLeish, Ford Maddox Ford, George Dillon, and Sterling North. Messages lauding Monroe's remarkable influence were received from many of the poets she had encouraged and promoted, including Ezra Pound, Walter De La Mare, William Rose Benet, Witter Bynner, John Gould Fletcher, Edgar Lee Masters, Lew Sarett, Jean Starr Untermeyer, and John Hall Wheelock, among others. In addition to the gift of her library and archives, Harriet Monroe's will provided $5,000 to establish a fund for the advancement and encouragement of poetry through the award of a $500 prize for distinction in poetry. Monroe stipulated that the committee of award for the prize should give preference to "poets of progressive rather than academic tendencies." The inaugural Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, given at the University of Chicago in June 1941, was presented to twenty-eight-year-old Muriel Rukeyser. Among those receiving the award in later years were Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Lowell. In 1953, the Harriet Monroe Modern Poetry Library was incorporated within the newly established Department of Special Collections of the University of Chicago Library. In 2002, this department became the Special Collections Research Center. The Modern Poetry book collection, enlarged continuously on an annual basis with the support of an endowed acquisition fund, is divided between a poetry collection in the general stacks of Regenstein Library and the Modern Poetry rare books and serials in the Special Collections Research Center. The editorial archives of Poetry magazine, the personal papers of Harriet Monroe, and the papers of other 5 modern poets, editors and publishers of poetry are held as part of the manuscript collections in the Special Collections Research Center. The editorial archives of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse acquired by bequest from Harriet Monroe included extensive files of correspondence and poetry manuscripts from the time of her founding of the journal in 1912 until her death in 1936. Subsequently, the University of Chicago Library acquired two additional series of editorial files documenting Poetry and its authors during the years 1936-1953 and 1954-1961. Together, these three series of files preserve the letters and writings of a significant and remarkably diverse group of modern poets of the first half of the twentieth century. Eliot, Pound, Williams, Moore, Yeats, Sandburg, Thomas, and Frost are represented, along with Vachel Lindsay, Conrad Aiken, Wallace Stevens, Yvor Winters, Sara Teasdale, James Joyce, Edgar Lee Masters, Alfred Kreymborg, Ford Maddox Ford, Louis Zukofsky, Hart Crane, Witter Bynner, and Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, and many others. Scope Note This collection contains administrative records of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse from its founding in 1912 to 1961. The majority of the files include correspondence, poetry, articles and reviews that were sent to and compiled by each editor of the magazine beginning with its first editor and founder, Harriet Monroe. Though the collection covers the period 1912 to 1961, it includes a small amount of correspondence from the late 1890s. In the 1970s, the collection was first archivally organized into three series, based upon the original arrangement in which the papers were received. The preservation and microfilming project conducted in 2001-2002 retained this broad arrangement but also provided enhanced description by identifying subdivisions with each of the series. The Poetry collection has been arranged as follows: Series I: Administrative Files, 1912-1936, Series II: Administrative Files, 1936-1953, Series III: Administrative Files, 1954-1961 and Series IV: Oversize. For more descriptive information see the series descriptions for each series. The collection documents not only the administration and growth of Poetry magazine, but also the development of English-language verse in the first half of the twentieth century. Most of the files within each series contain editorial correspondence and poetry, articles and reviews, in manuscript and proof form. Each series contains a modest amount of business files having to do with the operation of the magazine including financial, advertising and fund
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