Scope and Contents Letters, printouts of emails, cards, and postcards sent to Anne Stevenson from friends, family, business associates, literary peers, companies, charities, educational institutions, and people who admired her work. Some letters are accompanied by copies of poems written by the correspondents. Also present are contracts, financial statements, sales invoices and other items that Stevenson received through the post.This series is composed of 37 boxes and 783 identified correspondents,...

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Material relating to two critical studies written by Anne Stevenson on the works of American poet, Elizabeth Bishop. The first was published in 1966, and is titled Elizabeth Bishop. The second study, Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop, was originally published in 1998, and later republished in 2006.

Scope and Contents Two files holding various material relating to the poet, Elizabeth Bishop, which have been sent to Anne Stevenson by two sources: Ilse Barker and Sandra Barry. Presumably, the items found within these file were sent to Stevenson to inform her work on her critical study, Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop, later published in 1998.The first file holds items from Ilse Barker, which include, but are not limited to: letters, articles about Bishop, written by...

Scope and Contents Material relating to Anne Stevenson's critical study, Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop, which was originally published in 1998 by Agenda/Bellew Poets on Poetry, and later republished by Bloodaxe Books in 2006. The items present in this sub-series are only connected to the book's original publication.This sub-series is subdivided into the following: files with notes, outlines of chapters and draft passages; files with chapter-specific drafts for four of the...

Scope and Contents 12 folders holding drafts of the first chapter from Anne Stevenson's critical study, Five Looks at Elizabeth Bishop. The folders contain the following:1. A 17-page word-processed draft, which bears the chapter's original title, 'Our Infant Sight.' There are annotations in Stevenson's hand, and the first page is marked in pencil on the top-right corner as 'Sandra's' [Sandra Barry].2. A 27-page word-processed draft, which bears the chapter's...