MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Lensing, George, Jr.
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Descriptive Summary
Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967-1968
Volume: 7 item(s); 8 pg(s)
Scope and Content
While serving in the Peace Corps in Brazil, George Lensing sent Merton some poems of Carlos Drummond de Andrade and some of his own poems. Merton included Lensing's translation of "Morte do Leiteiro", or "Death of the Milkman", in Monks Pond IV.
Biography
George Lensing, Jr. was an English professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he served on the faculty from 1969-2016. After earning his doctorate from Louisiana State in 1966, he spent a couple of years in the Peace Corps in Brazil, teaching at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro.
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See also a translation of Carlos Drummond de Andrade included in Monks Pond, p. 261.
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