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Merton's Correspondence with:

John Ciardi

Ciardi, John, 1916-1986  printer

 
 

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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#DateFrom/ToFirst LinesPub ✓Notes
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1. 1963/07/29 HLS to Merton I 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" «detailed view»
2. 1967/01/31 TL[c] from Merton J. 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 Saturday Review «detailed view»
3. 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) «detailed view»

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