A Guide to the Hugh Kenner Papers
1965-1974 Kenner, Hugh, Papers
7826-a,
7826-b
A Collection in
Special Collections
The University of Virginia Library
Accession Number 7826-a, 7826-b
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Accession number
7826-a, 7826-b
Title
Hugh Kenner Papers
1965-1974
Physical Characteristics
This collection
consists of 79 items.
Language
English
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel
Beckett :
"Queer Little Pieces "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 5 p.
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.
Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel
Beckett :
"Waiting for Godot "[ca. 1972]
TMs, 21 p.
Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett: Early
Life and Poems
[ca. 1972]
TMs, 11 p.
Box 3
A Reader's Guide to Samuel Beckett: Early
Stories
[ca. 1972]
TMs, 9 p.
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