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A Guide to the Hugh Kenner Papers 1965-1974 Kenner, Hugh, Papers 7826-a, 7826-b

A Guide to the Hugh Kenner Papers 1965-1974

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Special Collections
The University of Virginia Library
Accession Number 7826-a, 7826-b


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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Accession number
7826-a, 7826-b
Title
Hugh Kenner Papers 1965-1974
Physical Characteristics
This collection consists of 79 items.
Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

Hugh Kenner Papers, Accession # 7826-a, 7826-b, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was acquired on 14 and 15 December, 1976.

Scope and Content Information

The collection contains typescripts of "The Counterfeiters ", 1968, and "A Homemade World ", 1974, drafts, ca. 1965-70, of The Pound era, and drafts, 1972, of A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett . Some correspondence and a few clippings are included.

Contents List

Box 1
The Counterfeiters ca. 1968
TMs, 150 p.

Typescript, final draft with autograph corrections and additions.

Box 1
A Homemade World : Chapter 1: "So Here It Is At Last "ca. 1974
TMs, 16 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions.

Box 1
A Homemade World : Chapter 2: "The Promised land "ca. 1974
TMs, 27 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions, AMs, 2 p.

Box 1
A Homemade World : Chapter 3: "Something to Say "ca. 1874
TMs, 29 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions.

Box 1
A Homemade World : Chapter 4: "Disliking It "ca. 1974
TMs, 5 p.

Reprint of Kenner's article "The Experience of the Eye: Marianne Moore's Tradition "plus typed additions with autograph corrections

Box 1
A Homemade World : Chapter 5: "Small Ritual Truths "ca. 1974
TMs, 33 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections, additions, and inserts

Box 1
A Homemade World : Chapter 6: "Classroom Accuracies "ca. 1974
TMs, 17 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 1
A Homemade World : Chapter 7: "The Last Novelist "ca. 1974
TMs, 19 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 1
A Homemade World ca. 1974
TMs

First draft fragment, also autograph notes

Box 1
The Pound Era : Foreword [ca. 1970]
TMs, 12 p.

3 drafts

Box 1
The Pound Era : "Ghosts and Benedictions "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 65 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions, includes notes, and letter, Henry Rago to Kenner

Box 1
The Pound Era : "Space Craft "[ca. 1970]
TMs, 63 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 1
The Pound Era : "Renaissance II "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 56 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 1
The Pound Era : [ "The Muse In Tatters "] [ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 78 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 1
The Pound Era : "Motz El Son "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 71 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 1
The Pound Era : "The Invention of Language "[1970]
TMs and AMs, 58 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 1
The Pound Era : "Words Set Free "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 24 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Knot and Vortex "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 61 p.

Three aarly drafts, with autograph corrections and additions, includes 5 p. notes and 3 p. footnotes

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Transformations "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 11 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions, includes 2 p. notes

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Imagism "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 11 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "The Invention of China "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 136 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions plus three sets typed footnotes, 1 p. autograph notes

Box 2
The Pound Era : "The Persistent East "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 32 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Vortex Lewis "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 12 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions, includes autograph notes and letter re. Wyndham Lewis drawing

Box 2
The Pound Era : "The Stone "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 12 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions, includes 2 p. autograph notes

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Privacies "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 16 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions, includes notes and reprint article on James Joyce

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Mao, or Presumption "[ca. 1969]
TMs and AMs, 28 p.

Early drafts, with autograph corrections and additions, includes 2 p. notes and 1 p. typed bibliographical data

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Douglas "[ca. 1970]
TMs, 22 p.

Early draft, with autograph correction and additions, includes 5 p. of notes of C. H. Douglas, Economic Democracy

Box 2
The Pound Era : "The Sacred Places "[ca. 1970]
TMs, 14 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "The Cantos - 1 "[ca. 1970]
TMs, 43 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "O City City... "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 11 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Syntax in Rutherford "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 39 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Specifics "[ca. 1970]
TMs, 7 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "The Cantos - 2 "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 12 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Inventing Confucius "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 10 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions, includes 2 p. autograph notes

Box 2
The Pound Era : "The Cage "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 81 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "The Jersey Paideuma "[ca. 1970]
TMs, 11 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "The Last Vortex "[ca. 1970]
TMs, 12 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : "Endings "[ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 20 p.

Early draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 2
The Pound Era : Footnotes [ca. 1970]
TMs and AMs, 42 p.

Footnotes

Box 2
The Pound Era : Unidentified drafts [ca. 1969-1970]
TMs, 6 p.
Box 2
The Pound Era : Miscellaneous notes [ca. 1968-1970]
Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett [ca. 1972]
TMs, 12 p.

Introduction plus Table of Contents, First draft, with autograph corrections

Box 2
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Waiting for Godot "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 16 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Murphy "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 15 p.

First draft

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Witt "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 13 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Mercier "et Camier [ca. 1972]
TMs, 7 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett: Molloy [ca. 1972]
TMs, 24 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett [ca. 1972]
TMs, 3 p.

First draft

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Endgame "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 11 p

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Knapp's Last Tape "[ca. 1927]
TMs, 6 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "How It Is "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 13 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Happy Days "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 5 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Play "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 7 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Radio, Television, and Film "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 12 p.

First draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Come and Go "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 2 p.

First draft

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Queer Little Pieces "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 5 p.

First draft

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett [ca. 1972]
TMs, 2 p.

First draft, suggested changes

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett [ca. 1972]
TMs, 18 p.

Later draft

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Waiting for Godot "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 21 p.

Later draft

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett: Early Life and Poems [ca. 1972]
TMs, 11 p.

Later draft

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett: Early Stories [ca. 1972]
TMs, 9 p.

Later draft

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Murphy "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 20 p.

Later draft, with substitutions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Mercier et Camier "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 11 p.

Later draft, with corrections

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Watt "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 16 p.

Later draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Molloy "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 33 p.

Later draft, with autograph corrections and additions

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Stories and Texts for Nothing "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 6 p.

Later draft, with corrections

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Endgame "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 12 p.

Later draft, with autograph corrections and additions, etc

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "How It Is "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 15 p

Later draft, with autograph corrections and additions, etc

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett: Happy Days [ca. 1972]
TMs, 7 p.

Later draft, with corrections

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett: Play [ca. 1972]
TMs, 8 p.

Later draft, with corrections

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Radio, Television, Film "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 19 p.

Later draft, with autograph corrections, additions, etc

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Come and Go "[ca. 1927]
TMs, 2 p.

Later draft, with corrections

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett: "Queer Little Pieces "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 8 p.

Later draft, with autograph corrections, additions, etc.

Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett : "Bibliography "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 3 p.
Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett [ca. 1972]
TMs, 9 p

Editorial queries and suggestions

Box 3
The Pound Era [ca. 1969-1971]

Hugh Kenner Correspondence re. The Pound Era

Box 3
Miscellaneous Correspondence of Hugh Kenner 1969
Box 3
The Pound Era 1966-1972

Miscellaneous newspaper and journal articles