Scope and Contents A file holding letters sent to and by Anne Stevenson, connected to her biography on Sylvia Plath, Bitter Fame, which include reactions to the publication following its release. Correspondents include: Olwyn Hughes, Ted Hughes, Peter Davison at Houghton Mifflin, Robert McMullen, Jude Bourguignon at Penguin Books, Dale J. Sprague, Bob Dykeman, C.J. Hardy, Jullian Becker, Ruth Scott, Madeline Strong Diehl, Marion Bright, Paul Roche, Joe Lobenthal, Richard Murphy, Ruth...

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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A sheet of A4 paper holding a typed draft of a script written by Anne Stevenson, produced as part of an unidentified public event in Oxford, in which Stevenson read or intended to read poems by Penelope Shuttle and Peter Scupham. The contents of the script introduces the two poets, who are due to address the audience prior to Stevenson's reading. There are annotations in her hand.

Scope and Contents Writings produced by Anne Stevenson that fall outside of her poetry, prose works, critical studies, radio scripts, opera libretti, translations, essays, reviews and other output covered in the 16 series preceding this one. The following types of items are present in this series, but are not limited to: non-poetry writings produced by Stevenson during her elementary/primary school years; introductions, prefaces and forewords for non-Stevenson publications; blurbs [a short description for a...

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A file holding proofs of pages 271 to 275 and 285 from an unidentified poem anthology. Pages 271 to 275 feature the following, previous published, poems written by Anne Stevenson: 'The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument;' 'The Marriage;' 'Swifts;' 'Making Poetry;' 'Talking Sense to My Senses;' and 'And Even Then.' Page 285 contains biographical notes for the following poets: Jo Shapcott; Penelope Shuttle; Pauline Stainer; and Anne Stevenson.

Scope and Contents Typescript and word-processed drafts of reviews by Anne Stevenson on the works of other poets and authors, which were published in or submitted to various outlets. Some drafts feature annotations and corrections in pencil or ink, and they are occasionally accompanied by other material.This sub-series is composed of 82 items/files, held in four boxes. The reviews are listed below in order of either the title of the reviewed publication, the title of the first publication when...

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Two files holding correspondence, along with poetry typescripts and related items, connected to Anne Stevenson's editorship of the 1991 publication, The Poetry Book Society Anthology 2. The majority of the correspondence are addressed to Stevenson, and most have been sent from those featured in the anthology.