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MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Ciardi, John, 1916-1986

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Descriptive Summary

Record Group: Section A - Correspondence

Dates of materials: 1963, 1967, 1982

Volume: 3 item(s); 9 pg(s)

Scope and Content

Biography

John Ciardi, according to the title of a lecture series on Ciardi, was a "Poet - Translator - Critic - Editor" (the lecture's brochure is included in the correspondence file). He long served as the Poetry Editor for the Saturday Review in New York, and in this capacity writes to Merton. He is noted for making poetry accessible to the public.

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See also the "White, Jo Anne" file.

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Series List

This Record Sub-Group is not divided into Series and is arranged chronologically.

Container List

SeriesDateTypeTo/FromFirst LinesPubFull TextNotes
 1963/07/29 HLSto MertonI have just returned to the office from a five week trip to find your letter and to learn at the  Merton's "And the Children of Birmingham" poem - went to presses without insertion of quotation marks / have to wait to put in "Gloss on the Sin of Ixion"
 1967/01/31 TL[c]from MertonJ. Laughlin writes me that you want to take out the third stanza from the poem "First Lesson on Man"  Merton thinks poem is better without third stanza / Merton asks whether "Prophetic Ambiguities" ever made it into the <u>Saturday Review</u>
 1982/10/22 other John Ciardi [-] Poet - Translator [-] Critic - Editor [-] BELLARMINE COLLEGE [-] Friday, October 22,  program for lecture to be delivered on John Ciardi by Robert E. Daggy (Bellarmine College Archivist and Director of the Thomas Merton Center)
        

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