Richard Eberhart (1904- )
Papers, ca. 1977-1990
24 items (1 box)
Ms Group 85
Biographical note:
Richard Eberhart
was born in Austin, Minnesota, on April 5,1904. He received a B.A. degree
from Dartmouth College, which conferred an Honorary Doctorship in Letters
on him in 1954, a B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University, and attended graduate
school at Harvard.
He was
a school teacher, before entering the U.S. Navy in World War II. After the
war, he joined a family business, the Butcher Polish Company of Boston.
In 1952 he went back to teaching and since then has served as a poet in
residence, professor, and lecturer at various colleges and universities.
His
first book, A Bravery of Earth, 1930, was followed by many others,
including Reading the Spirit, 1936, Song and Idea, 1940
Undercliff, Poems, 1946-1953, and Great Praises,1957, and Selected
Poems, 1966. His Collected Poems, 1930-1986, was published in
1988.
He has
received many prizes for his work, including the the Harriet Monroe Poetry
Award (1955), the Bollingen Prize (1962), the Pulitizer Prize (1966), the
National Book Award (1976), and the Poetry Society of America Robert Frost
Medal. He was the Library of Congress Consultant in Poetry from 1959-1961.
Summary: Typescripts, autograph, and Xerox copies of poems and
addresses, usually with autograph inscriptions. Proofs of the book, Of
Poetry and Poets (1979), and Ways of Light (1980).
A copy of the manuscript of William Packard First Selected Poems
(1977) is also included.
Provenance: The nucleus of this group of papers was presented
to the University of Florida by Mr. Eberhart during the spring term of 1977,
while he was in residence. Additional items were added between 1978 and 1990.
Arrangement: The original papers are listed first, divided into
Poems
and Prose
, followed by later additions
, arranged by date of accession.
POEMS
Folders
1. Address to God 22 lines. Xerox from
Times Literary Supplement, 3/12/76. Autograph signature, 5/77
2. Address to Time Typed ms. (copy) 2 pp.
Signed autograph inscription "Vanderbilt, R. P. Warren April, 1977."
3. Alcaic and Sapphic. A.Ms.S., May, 1977
[class exercise]
4. Autumn 45 lines. Typed Ms. (Xerox copy).
Auograph inscription signed: "first number of New York Quarterly,
5/77."
5. For a Lamb [etc.] Typescript (mimeographed
copy). Signed autograph inscription, "UF Class W 1977". Included in the
same typescript are:
The Groundhog; 48 lines
The Cancer Cells; 22 lines
If I could only live at the pitch
that is near Madness; 16 lines
On a squirrel crossing the road
in Autumn, in New England; 17 lines.
6. The Fort and the Gate 37 lines. Xerox from
Times Literary Supplement, Sept/76. Signed autograph inscription, 5/77.
7. The Gods of Washington, D.C. Broadside, published from
Collected Poems, 1930-1976, Oxford University Press, N.Y.,
1976. A Folger poetry broadside, inaugral series, 1977 . Holograph
inscription, "To the University of Florida, May, 1977. Read at the Folger
before Carter's Inauguration, Jan 18, 1977."
8. Incidence of Flight 24 lines. A.Ms.S., "Gainesville,
Spring, 1974. "From Collected Poems, 1930-1976"
9. Love Life 12 lines. Holograph poem, (3
drafts) typescript (Xerox copy). Gainesville, May 4, 1977, 7:30 a.m.
10. Night Thoughts Typescript (Xerox copy) Signed
inscription: Gainesville, winter term, 1977.
11. Poetry is a Search for Perfection 9 lines. Typescript
(Xerox copy) Signed inscription: UF library, 5/77."
12. Quarry-Stone 24 lines. Xerox copy from Thistle Magazine
. Holograph inscription: "Then I received the President's Medallion
from Robert Marston." Presentation to UF library, 5/77.
13. A Snowfall 27 lines. Xerox copy. Autograph inscription
and presentation copy to UF libraries, 5/77.
14. Time's Bludgeon 26 lines. Holograph and typed ms., (copy). Autographed,
May 4, 1977.
PROSE
15. Address: Third World Congress of Poets, Baltimore; June
13-27, 1976. June 22, 1976. Two Xeroxed items. Signed presentation to UF
library, 5/77.
16. Address for the National Book Award, delivered at the American
Academy , April 13 , 1977. 2 p. Autograph note and presentation inscription
to the University of Florida Library, May 1977.
17. Wade, Nicholas. Nicholas Wade's Trousers. 2 pp. Photocopy
from the Times Literary Supplement. March 4, 1977. With Eberhart 's holograph
commentray: "I enjoyed this in TLS." Presentation inscription to UF
Libraries, 5/77.
Additions
18. Announcement of the poet's public reading at Charleston College,
March 31 [1978] Broadside, 45 1/2 x 30 cm., with author's photo bt
William Packard. Signed inscription presentation to the University of Florida
Library, April 1978. 2 copies.
19 a& b. Of Poetry and Poets (1979). Page proofs with author's
revisions.[13] 312 leaves. Signed presentation inscription to Laura Monti
for the University of Florida Library; Gainesville, April 25, 1979.
20. Ways of Light; Poems 1972-1980.
Galley proofs with author's revisions.
Presentation inscription "To Rare Books, the University of Florida with All
Best Wishes, Richard Eberhart. April 21, 1980."
21. Recapitulation of a Poem Taken by the New Yorker (broadsheet 32x23 cm.).
[Winston-Salem, NC, Palaemon Press, c.1984] Signed by the author, with presentation
inscription to Sidney Ives, Rare Books & Manuscripts, University of Florida,
March 17, 1984.
22. Eberhart, Richard. TLS to Sidney Ives; Hanover, NH, June 25, 1985. Enclosing
a TLS from Eberhart to Chince N. Allen; Hanover, June 13, 1985, and several
publications regarding Darmouth College and himself.
23. Maine Poems (1988). Typed contents page (carbon) with xerox copies
of text from the Collected Poems (1988) and other publications. All inserted
within a "title page" tablet. Accompanied by an TLS with autograph P.S. from
Bill Butts, editor of Horns of Plenty, to Richard Eberhart; Chicago,
7 Oct. 1988, thanking him for contribution to the Malcolm Cowley issue. All
enclosed in an envelope with a presentation inscription to "Sidney Ives for
your Richard Eberhart Collection," April 29[?] 1989.
24. Packard, William. Collected Poems. Manuscript (copy). With TLS (carbon)
from Richard Eberhart to William Packard; Gainesville, March 20, 1990 re the
manuscript his and placing it in the University of Florida Library. Published
as First Selected Poems (New York: Pylon Press, c1977).
revised and updated January 29, 2002
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